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Lucylastic -> Senate Dems reject attacks on EPA climate efforts (4/7/2011 8:04:12 AM)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday defeated a Republican effort to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from controlling the gases blamed for global warming.Republicans still planned to pass an identical bill in the House on Thursday, even though it has little chance of becoming law.In a 50-50 vote, the Senate rejected a measure by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma that would have repealed a 2009 finding by federal scientists that climate change caused by greenhouse gases endangers human health and would have prevented the agency from using existing law to regulate heat-trapping pollution. The amendment — to a small-business bill — needed 60 votes to pass.Only four Democrats — Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska — supported the McConnell bid. One Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, voted against it.Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled House is expected to pass an identical bill Thursday, but the White House has threatened a veto any bill that reaches the president's desk. The House voted earlier this year to prohibit the EPA from spending any money to regulate greenhouse gases as part of a spending bill for the next six months. It is part of negotiations among the White House, Senate Democrats and House Republicans to keep the government running.More
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As a tree hugging liberal commie marxist hippy, Im so glad to hear about this.letting companies poison the earth just to save a few bucks is reckless and dangerous.
It just aint gonna happen without regulations sorry chaps but you cannot trust any company to police themselves when it comes to pollution
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