 In 2009, Gingrich's organization American Solutions for Winning the Future launched a "Stop the Energy Tax" petition campaign which has collected over 230,000 signatures opposing the regulation of carbon by the Environmental Protection Agency and the enactment of any laws imposing "new energy taxes and/or establishing a national cap and trade system for carbon dioxide".Gingrich has opposed Barack Obama's proposed Cap-and-Trade legislation.In April 2009 he gave testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, saying it would have no impact on global temperatures while simultaneously hurting the American economy.