Excerpts from the:
Murkowski tries anew to block EPA regulators
By ERIKA BOLSTAD
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski took her battle with the Environmental Protection Agency to the floor of the Senate today, saying she was left with no choice but to fight a federal agency she believes is “contemplating regulations that will destroy jobs while millions of Americans are doing everything they can just to find one.”
The Alaska Republican announced she would seek to keep the EPA from drawing up rules on greenhouse gas emissions from large emitters, such as power plants, refineries and manufacturers. Murkowski did it by filing a “disapproval resolution,” a rarely used procedural move that prohibits rules written by executive branch agencies from taking effect.
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“If Congress allows this to happen there will be severe consequences to our economy,” Murkowski said. “Businesses will be forced to cut jobs, if not move outside our borders or close their doors for good perhaps. Domestic energy production will be severely restricted, increasing our dependence on foreign suppliers and threatening our national security. Housing will become less affordable.”
She was immediately countered by Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairwoman of the committee that has done the most work on climate-change legislation: the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Murkowski’s disapproval resolution would essentially throw out the process by which the EPA found that greenhouse gases endanger public health, Boxer said.
She called Murkowski’s resolution an “unprecedented move to overturn a health finding by health experts and scientific experts in order to stand with the special interests.”
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Murkowski has as co-sponsors 38 fellow senators, including three Democrats: Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
Her move has prompted an aggressive response by environmentalists, who launched a radio and television advertising campaign in Anchorage and Washington, D.C., that focused on the role two industry lobbyists had in writing Murkowski’s original proposal last fall.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also criticized Murkowski’s effort, saying recently during an event in New York sponsored by the Geothermal Energy Association that Murkowski’s proposal was “misguided.”
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Great!
Smart political move by Sen. Lisa Murkowski. But the best thing that could happen is for this to get thrown into the courts; Why? Discovery!
Mike Ramsey
Apparently the Democratic leadership learned nothing from Massachusetts on Tuesday.
a brief moment of sanity in US political life.
Go girl go.
Time to kick some EPA bureaucratic butt.
Video seems to have been hacked..? just checking with others
countered by Sen. Barbara Boxer
poll numbers show Sen Boxer does not have job security. November is coming soon
Alaska seems to be producing brave women
You go, Sen. Murkowski, and tell them to keep their Eco-cult Carbon Fetish off my body.
Steve Goddard (16:07:30) :
Apparently the Democratic leadership learned nothing from Massachusetts on Tuesday
LOL!! Correct!
They are clutching with white knuckles a ship that is going down
Sen. Barbara Boxer called Murkowski’s resolution an “unprecedented move to overturn a health finding by health experts and scientific experts in order to stand with the special interests.”
Hog-waste, or hogwash >> These Democrats such as Boxer wouldn’t know a health expert or scientific expert from Al Gore. They spend so much time raising money to get re-elected that they haven’t learned anything new in years about science. They probably don’t even know about the bubbles in sparkling wine.
Three cheers for Lisa Murkowski and the 38 co-sponsors, including the three Democrats: Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
What’s going on? Has the world just awoken from some huge progressive sleep?
I hope people are finally realizing the nightmare huge government has in store for us!!!
Wouldn’t a bill in the senate like this need 60 votes? If so just a token bill, with a message. I think the best place to get this EPA over thrown is ion the courts. Their findings would no way hold up in court. Why? The only epirical evidence they have is a flawed temperture record that says in the last 150 years the temperture has a 1/2 of one degree anamoly. And that doesn’t one any shape or form say all that maybe 1/2 degree was caused by GHG. We need to get this in the courts ASAP and it will be struck down in a heart-beat…John…..
Wow! I have never seen this before. However, I want to hear the executive branch argue that elected representatives cannot challenge administrators.
The debate ought to be a hoot.
vg –
seems to work OK for me.
BTW, Senator Inhofe has the Head of the EPA on record in testimony to Congress saying that America acting unilaterally to reduce CO2 will do nothing to stop global warming.
“Murkowski’s disapproval resolution would essentially throw out the process by which the EPA found that greenhouse gases endanger public health, Boxer said.”
Hoorah to that!
Lisa Murkowski is a courageous Alaskan woman. Alaskan women are generally tougher and more practical than the run of the mill american prima donna princess who can’t chance cracking her precious nails.
Steve Goddard (16:07:30) :
Apparently the Democratic leadership learned nothing from Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Could they learn something from this, Steve?
It runs to 149 PDF pages and, if read, digested and acted on, could yet snatch a political victory from the jaws of defeat for a lucky few!
Anthony ran an extract for a recent thread. The full document is breathtakingly brilliant as it forensically dissects ClimateGate. Actions, actors and all.
The document.
Climategate Analysis From SPPI
by John P. Costella
The link
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/climategate_analysis.pdf
i’ve never heard of John Costella before but I’m just about to Google (or Bing) to complete my education.
If you haven’t already done so, read the link. IMO, this will be regarded, by history, as a pivotal document of the 21st century.
Thank you John.
I am rapidly becoming a fan of Republicans! I hope that once they have my interest, they don’t go all faith-based white on me. On this same note, I am liking the new Mass. Senator Brown very much. What an interesting character. He has tweaked noses on both sides of the isle.
The revelations of Climategate challenge the scientific authority of the IPCC and leave their moral authority in tatters.
It’s time for the Supreme Court to reconsider Massachusetts vs. EPA where the majority opinion was based strictly on an appeal to authority argument.
The EPA edict is about destroying our industry and standard of living. Nothing more.
Now, who would benefit from destroying our industry. Anyone we know?
CO2 is evil. Coca Cola is full of it. Every can should be confiscated.
She seems to have the balls male members of the senate can only wish they had.
Congress will not pass a bill in 2010 that would regulate and tax CO2. But the EPA can regulate CO2 unilaterly. Something is wrong with this picture. So, let’s support Murkowski. While I would hope the liberals would oppose her, I don’t think the smarter Democrats will, fearing for their re-election chances.
Cbdakota
I agree with Mr. Ramsay above. While I don’t have particularly high hopes that the case will be wholly successful, discovery will open a can of worms so distasteful to the American people that the EPA and the Administration will be forced to start from scratch on the science of greenhouse gasses.