Neither the Senate resolutions passed Tuesday to kill the administration’s Clean Power Plan regulating carbon dioxide at new and existing power plants, nor the House combination of those resolutions being discussed, will survive President Obama’s veto. But Republicans (and a few Democrats) are determined to let every American know that they will do all they can to undermine government policy designing to ameliorate and adapt to climate change.

Under the Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency aims to cut U.S. CO 2 emissions 32 percent by 2030 over 2005 by requiring states to generate plans that for reducing power-plant emissions. That means even more coal-fired power plants will be shut down than have been in the past five years.

Among the supporters of the Senate resolution—introduced under the Congressional Review Act—were three conservative Democrats, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who has argued that the EPA must find a “path forward for coal.” Attorneys general for those three states and 23 others are also suing in federal court over the Clean Power Plan, lawsuits that are as likely to fail as the seven previous ones have done.

The veto-doomed congressional resolutions would permanently prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating CO 2 as a pollutant, something the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the agency is required to do under the Clean Air Act.

Rep. Ed Whitfield, the chairman of the House Energy and Power Subcommittee, who introduced the House resolutions, stated:

“An EPA takeover of the electricity sector is a recipe for higher bills, reduced reliability, and job losses,” Whitfield said. “These resolutions stand up for ratepayers, jobs, and affordable energy in Kentucky and throughout the country.”

This is hogwash. But it’s the kind that gets widely accepted. A report released in April that looks at the plan out to 2040 notes that the Clean Power Plan would increase employment by 273,000 new jobs. Most of those gains would come in the first 10 years of the plans. Right now, solar energy, for example, provides more jobs than coal mining—142,698 versus 89,838. In 2014, the renewables industry overall employed more than 700,000 Americans. The EPA also forecasts that the Clean Power Plan will save $155 billion in electricity costs between 2020 and 2030. Expressed another way, that’s $85 a year in savings per family. Finally, while reliability obviously matters a great deal, arguing that a switch from fossil fuels to renewables means an end to reliable electricity is true only if the increase in solar, wind and geothermal is done thoughtlessly.