President Obama's soon-to-be-unveiled national plan to reduce carbon pollution is running into early opposition from lawmakers concerned over the plan's potential economic costs.

The plan, which the president will announce next week, is expected to include efforts to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants. It was unclear whether the plan would include calls for controls on existing power plants.
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House Speaker John Boehner told reporters Thursday that calling for more energy regulations would be "absolutely crazy."

"Why would you want to increase the cost of energy and kill more American jobs at a time when the American people are still asking the question, where are the jobs?," Boehner said.
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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, a critic of Obama's energy and economic policies, told The Hill on Thursday that regulating power plants with requirements that don't exist in emerging nations like China would be shortsighted.

"Why do you want to penalize and beat the living the daylights out of America and American taxpayers, and American ratepayers? It is just wrong, it is shortsighted and wrong, and I will fight it until the end," he told the newspaper.
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National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brad Dayspring said Saturday that Democratic senators and candidates running in the 2014 elections would be "held accountable" for embracing the administration's energy policies.

"It's expected that President Obama's plan will be a wet kiss to radical environmentalists and the extreme left," Dayspring said in a statement. "As we await details, many of the leftist proposals discussed by White House officials would crush states such as West Virginia, Kentucky, Alaska, Arkansas, and Louisiana – not to mention plenty of others like Michigan and Montana."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/...-ahead-rollout/

Now is not the time to be kissing up to Obama's radical environmentalists. Note the last sentence:

Obama's speech on Tuesday will come the day before he leaves for a weeklong trip to three African nations.

Maybe they could keep him there for the next few years. His priorities are as mixed up as he is.