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Obama has the power to delay new rules that will shut down 8% of all U.S. power generation.

Since everyone has a suggestion or three about what President Obama can do to get the economy cooking again, here's one of ours: Immediately suspend the Environmental Protection Agency's bid to reorganize the U.S. electricity industry, and impose a moratorium on EPA rules at least until hiring and investment rebound for an extended period.

The EPA is currently pushing an unprecedented rewrite of air-pollution rules in...

Editorial: Revise EPA rules for cement plantsLoss of direct and indirect jobs would negatively hit already ailing economy if rules are not revisedAugust 12, 2011

The EPA has forged a set of rules governing emissions from cement manufacturing plants that could dramatically reduce the number of plants in the United States.

Fortunately, a bipartisan coalition of House members has produced legislation that would require the agency to take a more realistic approach to regulation. It should be adopted.

The legislation has the support of House Energy...

Bipartisan Panel Expresses Outrage Over EPA's Foreign Handouts

THE HILL: House GOP bashes EPA over $100M in foreign grants to battle pollutionHouse Republicans launched a fresh attack on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week, blasting Administrator Lisa Jackson for setting aside millions of dollars in grants to foreign countries aimed at reducing global pollution.Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released...a report...Monday night detailing what they say is nearly $100 million in "foreign handouts" to countries...

By Carol D. Leonnig, Joe Stephens and Alice Crites

With trips that began two months after he took office, President Obama has devoted more than half of his out-of-town private-business visits to promoting a single industry: clean technology, which the president says will lead the nation back to economic prosperity.

His praise for renewable-energy projects has been effusive. A day after this year's State of the Union address, he stood among workers at a small Wisconsin lighting company and dubbed it a "model for the future," helped by...