As the United Nations Climate Conference prepares to conclude this week, I remain very concerned that U.S. negotiators continue to express a commitment to participate in binding international emissions limits and amassive wealth transfer to combat the perceived effects of global warming. For these reasons I joined several of my colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama reminding him of the Senate’s previously -passed Byrd-Hagel Resolution and urging him not to sign any international agreement at Copenhagen that will cause economic harm to our nation.

Furthermore, I joined my colleagues in introducing a new resolution to reaffirm our position that the United States shall not participate in an international greenhouse gas emissions agreement that will exempt developing countries, hurt our economy, or compromise American sovereignty by submitting our country to enforcement by other nations. These negotiations for an international agreement go hand-in-hand with the Obama Administration’s move to rush forward with its final endangerment finding so the EPA can unilaterally impose domestic greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act, and the Senate’s continued debate on the House-passed “cap and tax” legislation. I continue to strongly oppose these efforts for command-and-control regulation that will micromanage our economy, raise energy prices, and kill jobs.