We already know Congressman Kathy Castor is cool.

The Democrat, whose district includes parts of Tampa and a solidly Democratic part of south St. Pete (gerrymander much?), further confirmed her kickassness Tuesday, when she did that thing…what's it called…where you call someone out for allowing power companies to rip off consumers while ignoring the looming threat of climate change.

Public Service Commission Chair Art Graham was in DC not talking about climate change at an Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on a nationwide clean energy plan.

Castor laid into Graham like so many of us would like to on the failure of his agency, which is supposed to protect consumers from utility companies but does the exact opposite.

First, she asked Graham about Governor Rick Scott's alleged banning of terms related to climate change from state government lingo.

"I've read your testimony. Nowhere in your testimony do you use the words global warming or climate change," she said. "Is that a product of Governor Scott's unwritten policy?"

And here's how he evaded that.

"Absolutely not," he said. "I was told to come here to talk about that the financial impact would be of implementing 111(d). And that was what my written testimony was."

If you must know, 111(d) is a provision of the Clean Air Act pertaining to greenhouse gas emissions of existing power plants.

Castor wasn't having it.

"I find your testimony very curious because the Florida Public Service Commission has not been on the side of consumers," she said. "You say the Clean Power Plan threatens affordability for consumers and…the commission will protect consumers from excessive costs. But let me give you a few examples of the costs that Florida's heaped on our customers."

First, off, Castor said, if you guys gave a shit about affordability for consumers, ya might not have gutted energy efficiency requirements for utilities.

"The PSC recently gutted energy efficiency initiatives even though efficiency can meet demand at a much lower cost, at a fraction of the cost of building new power plants, and can help customers reduce energy costs, put money back in their pocket, create new jobs at the same time. We would see a larger savings on bills. But that's not the business model in Florida. So those stunning rollbacks in energy efficiency, especially at a time when we've got to be looking for ways to save on carbon pollution and save money."

She went on to call him out for saying Florida's Sunshine State moniker was "nothing more than a license plate slogan."

Castor also talked about Duke's advanced nuclear recovery fee, which lawmakers have yet to abolish.

"We've cut back on the energy efficiency programs because we've done so much before," Graham said (the nation yelled 'bullshit!' as it pretended into cough into its collective hand). "Since we've started this program we've achieved 9,330 gigabytes worth of ener-"

Castor interrupted him.

"Mr. Graham, that's simply not the case," she said. "There is report after report after report that says the State of Florida is so far behind."

Watch the rest of the video, which we'd wager is probably the most refreshing thing you'll watch this week, here.

All of that said, while it was refreshing to see Castor call the PSC out on its bullshit, in all likelihood Graham will do, as Jeb Bush would put it, "probably nothing" to address her (and our) concerns.

This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2015.