Thursday, September 13, 2012

House Republicans scrub climate change concerns from EPA bill

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/249429-house-gop-scrubs-climate-concerns-from-epa-bill


The latest House bill aimed at thwarting climate change regulations drops previous language that acknowledged scientific concerns about global warming and evidence of rising temperatures and sea levels.
The House is slated to vote next week on several bills aimed at battling what Republicans call a White House “war” on coal — a package that includes previously passed legislation to block greenhouse gas rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
But the new version of the greenhouse gas bill omits a “sense of Congress” section that describes scientific concerns about climate change while casting it as an international issue.
 The earlier version, which the House passed in April of 2011, said the U.S. has a “role to play in resolving global climate change matters on an international basis.”
they are trying to inflict as much of their agenda on us as possible before Nov.6th, they know they won't have to tell us their plans that are with the WMD'S cause they sure aren't with them.
The "sense of Congress" in the version of the bill approved last year stated: "There is established scientific concern over warming of the climate system based upon evidence from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level."
The prior version of H.R. 910 also said Congress should ensure the U.S. fulfills its international climate role by developing policies that don't hurt the economy, energy supplies or jobs.
here's the re-write they can't have that in there that's like Bush leaving torture as illegal in his re-write. the idea of global warming qualifies those pesky regulations they want their benefactors to shortcut. it is not about "we the people" is about "them the corporations.