By Bob Sanders - January 19, 2012

Should N.H. "bureaucrats" have to go to the legislature before expending funds to see whether they want to join a low carbon fuel standard compact?

Cory Lewandowski, state director of Americans for Prosperity and a strong supporter of the bill, said HB 1487 would prevent "state bureaucrats" at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services "from entering a program that will cost the state money," Lewandowski said such programs could increase the price at the gas pumps and in grocery stores.

However, some of the state's bureaucrats are pretty good, said Science Technology and Energy Committee Chair Rep. James Garrity of Atkinson, and if the 10 other northeastern states adopt a "liquid Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative" it might not be such a bad idea to have some of them do what they can do.

"It would be less ugly if we were at the table," he said.

House Bill Would Require Legislative Approval for Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Program

WINDHAM - Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire State Director, Corey R. Lewandowski, will testify today in support of HB 1487, which would require legislative approval of New Hampshire’s participation in any Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Program (LCFS). The hearing will take place before the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee at 9:30AM in LOB 304.

WINDHAM – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) New Hampshire State Director Corey R. Lewandowski released the following statement on the RGGI report released by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

“The report released by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners affirms what we have suspected all along- RGGI does not work for New Hampshire ratepayers who have seen their rates increase as a direct result from RGGI. As outlined in the report, what is indirect are many of the so-called benefits to our state which very much like the global warming problem they set out to solve seem to be floating in the air somewhere and unable to be counted or measured,” said Corey R. Lewandowski, State Director of Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire.