Next week, it's being reported, the Senate may gut any new, effective regulations coming from the EPA regarding the Clean Air Act.
This comes about because Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) slipped an amendment into law:
"Majority Leader Harry Reid has allowed the polluting industries, represented by Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, to advance a vote on whether to block the EPA from taking any steps to enforce its recent ruling that global warming gases endanger public health. Murkowski may propose either a one-year block or something more permanent, depending on her assessment of the vote count this year and after the November elections."
So just when this Congress is looking to roll on with legislation that will protect the polluting corporations, with their money and lobbyists, check out what just came across the wire from the Associated Press:
"Schools in parts of Utah kept students inside for sports and recess Tuesday after soaring pollution levels prompted state health warnings on driving and outdoor activity."
"For the third straight day, AIRNow, a national index for reporting daily air quality, ranked portions of Utah as having the most polluted air in the country..."
And keep in mind, this is Utah, folks. We're not talking the "dirty Northeast" part of the United States. This should be clean air, open West, mountain country clean air Utah.
Yeah, Congress people, keep protecting those corporations--at the expense of your constituents.
Could there be a more obvious need to work for clean air than that Utah, of all places--formerly presumed to be squeaky clean Utah--has to keep their kids indoors at school during recess?
What do we have to hit these people over the head with, to get them to see and admit the obvious?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment