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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has undertaken a personal campaign to get the governors of all 50 states to refuse to abide by the Environmental Protection Agency's new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
Last week, McConnell wrote to the governors urging them not to move forward with state compliance plans under the EPA's Clean Power Plan, which seeks to cut emissions at the national level by 30 percent by 2030. "I believe you will find, as I have, that the EPAs proposal goes far beyond its legal authority and that the courts are likely to strike it down," McConnell wrote.
On Wednesday, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) sent back a response: Nope.
He used a few more words than that, but that was the gist:
Dear Majority Leader McConnell,
I disagree. Climate change is real. Its a threat to humanity. We should be working harder to address it, not rolling back efforts to do so. I fully support the Environmental Protection Agencys plan.
Sincerely,
Peter Shumlin
Governor of Vermont
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/25/vermont-climate-mcconnell_n_6942018.html
daleanime
(17,796 posts)We need to be moving faster on the EPA's plan.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)... when their corporate masters who finance their campaigns tell them.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)the law?
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)joshdawg
(2,651 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)know what IOKIYAR
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I suspect McConnell doesn't think he'll have to answer to the beaten federal government.
Interesting that McConnell thinks the rebellion has spread to enough states that the attempted take down of federal authority it deemed reasonable and appropriate.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Obama says it real,,, and if he says its real , it has to be non-real ........!
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)and encouraging others to do the same... said no headline ever!
spanone
(135,861 posts)ala mccconnell
surrealAmerican
(11,363 posts)... McConnell got 49 more letters just like that? He won't, of coarse - there are too many governors who are pro-pollution.