Thursday, April 07, 2011

House votes to kill EPA climate regulations - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com
House lawmakers sent a loud message to the White House on Thursday: They want to obliterate the Obama administration’s climate rules.

The chamber voted 255-172, primarily along party lines, to nullify the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations and the scientific finding they’re based on. No Republicans opposed the bill, but 19 Democrats broke ranks with their party to support the measure.
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The House also easily rejected Democrats' motion to recommit, which would have stipulated that EPA has the "authority to protect vulnerable children and seniors, including kids with asthma and lung diseases, from the ill effects of air pollution."

Upton rebuffed the motion on the House floor, arguing that his bill wouldn't affect the agency's authority to curb asthma-causing pollutants.
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Will any of the Dems who voted against EPA science suffer for it? Or even feel threatened? At all?

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