{"id":2925,"date":"2011-02-11T02:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2011-02-11T02:21:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T07:21:46","slug":"latta-urges-epa-to-withdraw-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/02\/11\/latta-urges-epa-to-withdraw-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta urges EPA to withdraw proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent<\/strong>\/<em>contributor content<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 On Thursday, U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) spoke on the House floor to urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw a proposal that would identify coal ash as a \u201chazardous waste\u201d under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2927\" style=\"width: 103px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Latta-Robert-election-art.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2927 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Latta-Robert-election-art.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Bob Latta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Latta spoke on behalf of the Subcommittee on Economy and Environment of the House Energy and Commerce Committee as part of an overall, Republican Conference effort to inventory and review federal regulations with respect to their negative effect on jobs and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverstating the harms of coal ash and designating it as a hazardous waste will damage our economy by raising costs for both families and companies,\u201d said Latta.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 45 percent of coal ash generated is recycled as building materials. \u00a0A move to regulate coal ash would stifle building materials from recycled coal and would force more ash to landfills. The EPA\u2019s regulatory determination would make a safe and beneficial product incur $16.7 billion in increased costs per year, according to the agency\u2019s own reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe increased cost would lead to a 18 percent decline in coal generated power, resulting in higher unemployment and energy costs, and further dependency on foreign countries for energy,\u201d Latta concluded. \u201cIn this economy, we cannot afford to lose any more jobs in Ohio or the United States; we need to get Washington out of the way by tearing down barriers to job creation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent\/contributor content WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 On Thursday, U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) spoke on the House floor to urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw a proposal that would identify coal ash as a \u201chazardous waste\u201d under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Latta spoke on behalf of the Subcommittee on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 06:13:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}