Republicans fight Barack Obama on climate change [scam] - Telegraph

Congressional Republicans vowed on Wednesday to prevent the Obama administration from reducing the pollution that contributes to global warming, proposing to cut the budget of the U.S. environmental agency.
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The agency has been caught before in shifting political winds. But in the 40 years since Republican President Richard Nixon created the federal agency charged with protecting Americans from pollution, observers say the atmosphere for the agency has never been more toxic than it is now.

"It's really been quite extreme," said William Ruckelshaus, who was the first administrator under Nixon and later ran the agency under President Ronald Reagan, of the rhetoric being aimed at the agency this time around. "What are they supposed to do? Sit there and do nothing?"