Senate Showdown on Science, Climate and Your Health

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Posted on March 30, 2011
By Christina Simeone, Policy Director

Today will be a showdown on science and climate in the Senate. Votes are planned on three amendments that would stop the EPA from limiting the pollution that causes climate change. These amendments are being considered as part of an unrelated small business bill.
These efforts to block limits on global warming pollution — which scientific evidence tells us causes climate change, harms our health and damages the environment — ignore science and the sworn duty of elected officials to act in the best interest of the people. Climate science deniers are becoming more desperate and more aggressive in their efforts to roll back the Clean Air Act — the only law that offers Americans protection from such pollution. Make no mistake, climate deniers are mounting an all-out assault on reason, science, health, the environment and basic common sense.
The three amendments being offered in the Senate would do the following:

* Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s amendment would permanently remove the authority under the Clean Air Act to limit the pollution that causes climate change.

* Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ amendment would prevent EPA from setting limits on smaller polluters and on emissions from the agricultural industry – such as reducing methane emissions from industrial animal farms.

* Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller’s amendment would delay EPA’s plans to limit pollution from large facilities for two years.
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More at >>>> http://repoweramerica.org/blog/senate-showdown-on-science-climate-and-your-health/

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1. DINO's, Blue Dogs, at work. Will hurt Texas air quality if passes.

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2. And what people don't seem to get, Texas air quality affects us all. nt