House panel advances bill to limit greenhouse gas restrictions

Source: LA Times

House committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, boosting a top Republican priority and taking aim at the Obama administration and states like California that favor tougher regulations.

The bill was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a largely party-line vote. Republicans argued that action by the EPA, coming after Congress failed to pass a global warming bill, would impose burdensome and unnecessary rules on industry.

Democrats cast the measure as a skirmish in an ongoing GOP war on the science of global warming. The bill is unlikely to win significant support in the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority.

Introduced by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the bill is a reaction to a 2007 Supreme Court decision holding that the EPA could regulate greenhouse gases if they were found to endanger health. In 2009, the EPA made such a finding and began preparing rules to restrict carbon emissions, as it does with other pollutants.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-house-epa-vote-20110316,0,2784801.story

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Once again, Republicans following the commands of their corporate overseers and work steadily to strip Americans of their rights and environmental protections.

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NASA Study Says Ice Caps Melting at a Much Faster Rate

The study says sea levels could rise 12.6 inches by 2050.

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Of course corporate rights; trump any and all other rights with the Republicans, whether state, federal or human.

Thanks for the thread, TomCaDem