Slowpoke toon - GOP 'cleaning up' environmental laws

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While the nation was distracted with debt ceiling shenanigans, House Republicans did something else that went largely and predictably ignored by much of the news media. They quietly slipped 39 anti-environmental riders, many of them eye-poppingly radical, into an appropriations bill. The riders would do things like: prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases for one year, stop coal ash from being treated as hazardous waste, and block the enforcement of new fuel efficiency laws that automakers have actually agreed to. The money quote from Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID): "Many of us think that the overregulation from E.P.A. is at the heart of our stalled economy." Oh yeah, that's it. Fortunately, many of these brilliant ideas won't make it through the Senate, but you never know, now that we live in a hostage-ocracy.

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