Senate GOP takes aim at EPA regs
Politico.com
Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed to rein in what they say is an overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency, but a lack of significant Democratic support and a veto threat from the White House seemed likely to thwart their efforts.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, wants the Senate to approve a resolution blocking the agency's regulations on greenhouse gases. She and 11 GOP colleagues — ranging from Jim Inhofe who believes climate change is a "hoax" to Lindsey Graham, the one-time cosponsor of bipartisan climate change legislation — spoke to reporters about the measure in a Capitol Hill news conference.
"Do you believe that the EPA, that an agency, should be setting climate policy in this country, that unelected bureaucrats who are not accountable to any constituents so far as I know, should be setting the policy? Or do you think that those of us in Congress, here in the Senate, should be setting that policy?" Murkowski asked. "This will be [a] straight up-or-down [vote]."
The EPA moved forward to regulate greenhouse gases as House-passed climate legislation stalled in the Senate. In 2007, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency that gave EPA the authority to treat greenhouse gases as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed to rein in what they say is an overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency, but a lack of significant Democratic support and a veto threat from the White House seemed likely to thwart their efforts.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, wants the Senate to approve a resolution blocking the agency's regulations on greenhouse gases. She and 11 GOP colleagues — ranging from Jim Inhofe who believes climate change is a "hoax" to Lindsey Graham, the one-time cosponsor of bipartisan climate change legislation — spoke to reporters about the measure in a Capitol Hill news conference.
"Do you believe that the EPA, that an agency, should be setting climate policy in this country, that unelected bureaucrats who are not accountable to any constituents so far as I know, should be setting the policy? Or do you think that those of us in Congress, here in the Senate, should be setting that policy?" Murkowski asked. "This will be [a] straight up-or-down [vote]."
The EPA moved forward to regulate greenhouse gases as House-passed climate legislation stalled in the Senate. In 2007, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency that gave EPA the authority to treat greenhouse gases as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38289.html#ixzz0qSSUs2k0
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FYI : The Senate wasted most of yesterday debating this resolution ... think about it ... debating a resolution that even if the Senate approved, would have to go to the House and be approved ... then the President would have to sign it to have any effect.
I found McCain to be the most depressing ... depressing because he has traveled to the Artic and accepts that we have a problem ... but he spoke - actually pathetically - that the EPA had too much power .... help me out, but since the EPA was created during the Nixon administration who called for "a strong, independent agency", what has changed in the past 50 years ? Oh yeah, the TEA movement.
The resolution failed. Those that voted for the Republican resolution were all Republicans plus Bayh, Landrieu, Lincoln, Nelson, Pryor and Rockerfeller ... hmmm ... I wonder if the coal and oil industries feel they got their monies worth ?
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