Republican leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee sent this letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson regarding their concerns with the agency’s recent pattern of choosing to settle activist lawsuits under terms that EPA then uses to justify expanding its regulatory authority without the direction of Congress.

The letter regarding this "sue & settle" tactic was sent by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-OK), House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH), and Senate Water and Wildlife Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

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