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WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation that will protect rural America from continued uncertainty and potential costly expansion of federal dust regulations. H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, passed the House with bipartisan support by a vote of 268 to 150.

H.R. 1633, authored by Reps. Kristi Noem (R-SD), Robert Hurt (R-VA), Leonard Boswell (D-IA), and Larry Kissel (D-NC), will resolve the regulatory uncertainty surrounding EPA's current and future regulation of rural dust. The bill will prevent EPA from changing its...

WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to President Obama today urging him to reconsider his threat to reject House legislation offering relief to out-of-work Americans.

The president yesterday declared that he would reject the House payroll tax extension package based on the inclusion of a provision to speed up construction of Keystone XL pipeline. If constructed, the pipeline would immediately put tens of thousands of Americans back to work and support over 100,000 jobs. Members are...

The Obama Administration is putting one of our basic needs at risk--our ability to keep the lights on. President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency is proposing costly new regulations on America's power sector that could have widespread impacts on the reliability of our electric grid. Analyses have projected that these new rules will cause a significant portion of our power supply to go offline. Despite clear warning signs, administration officials have done little to ease these concerns, and instead, continue to downplay the impacts of these new rules. Energy...

WASHINGTON, DC -- A new report released today by IHS Global Insight underscores the positive economic impacts of U.S. shale gas production. Recent advances in extraction technologies have allowed affordable access to shale gas resources, leading to a dramatic growth in domestic energy production. This new energy boom is creating jobs, generating government revenues, and advancing our nation's energy security.

The report found that shale gas development currently supports over 600,000 jobs and will likely support up to 870,000 jobs by 2015.... The authors project the...