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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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The Cattlemen of the United States have also filed a lawsuit in opposition to the EPA findings on CO2.
Awesome job! I think Sen. Murkowski covered this perfectly.
MikeEE
Go Lisa go! We need to restore sanity to our country, and stop the hemoraging of out industrial base and job market.
Lisa Jackson, the head of the EPA and the person who made the endangerment finding, has already said that she thought the whole matter would be best handled by the legislature…. though I’m not sure she would have anything good to say about this initiative.
WOW!!!
Congrats to the 38 senators on the resolution.
Special congrats to Sen. Lincoln from the great State of Arkansas! (my home)
Aren’t those the democratic Senators who got kickbacks in their healthcare bill?
It seems that they are trying to save their careers now.
When Dr. Charles Krauthammer first brought this to my attention, I wrote to my Michigan senators (both Democrats) pointing out that our state’s leadership in national unemployment would only be accelerated if this EPA ruling was allowed to stand.
Not having received a response from either to them (surprise!), I now note that they are not part of the bi-partisan coalition to stop this insanity.
Leadership in unemployment. No leadership in the Senate. Coincidence?
I think I love Lisa!
Pamela Gray – “I hope that once (Republicans) have my interest, they don’t go all faith-based white on me. ”
I take it you’re a troll? How can this possibly add to the conversation?
The term “clear and present danger” comes to mind. CO2 is not a clear and present danger. See this link for the “latest” on ozone affecting the West Coast –
http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/51884/Study_links_springtime_ozone_increases_above_western_North_America_to_emissions_from_abroad.html
“Springtime ozone levels above western North America are rising primarily due to air flowing eastward from the Pacific Ocean, a trend that is largest when the air originates in Asia.”
Boxer needs to go to China.
old salt, Pamela is not a troll. She makes many very worthy contributions to these discussions.
Can we put Babs in a box of pure argon. Please? No, I am not being serious, but Babs thinks argon is a laboratory not a gas.
We have more to do to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs, but this measure is a start to stop the EPA’s attempt to take over legislation. The AGW agenda needs to be fought at every turn.
Well one of the main climate researchers at NCAR, and an IPCC member Kevin Trenberth says adaptation should be the key strategy to deal with GW/AGW.
When one of the top climate members who says there IS AGW also say that the effective thing to do about it is make sure we are able to adapt as needed that Should tell the world and especially the government that funds him not to kill business with a cap and trade bill. Especially a rats nest bill of choking red tape such as what came out of the U.S. House of Representatives. But since when do politicians listen to scientists, let alone have the ability to understand the actual matters.
Not trying to spam, honest. But those GISS emails Judicial Watch received under FOIA has some amazing stuff. Would you believe GISS admits they have NO evidence of AGW in the US data (even though it is the best on the planet) and don’t expect to detect any evidence for 2-4 decades!
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/12532
If true, NASA admitting there is no AGW in the US should be a boost to the case against the EPA!
Maybe she saw this time series graph of Alaska annual mean temperatures which shows no warming in Alaska over the past 30 years.
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/marka/tmean.alaska.annual.1980-2009.gif
old salt (17:12:28) :
Pamela Gray – “I hope that once (Republicans) have my interest, they don’t go all faith-based white on me. ”
I take it you’re a troll? How can this possibly add to the conversation?
Pamela, until recently was a life long democrat, proclaimed recently that she had turned independent. She’s also one of the most respected, and cleverest, commentators on this site.
Methinks, Auld Saline, you’ve dropped a clanger! Never mind matey, you’re still welcome. You may have to put your hand in your pocket thought because of that gaffe!
as soon as i hear “jobs” i stop listening.
just more politics.
nothing about science ?
just playing the angles, so far.
that will change.
Harold Blue Tooth (16:17:35) :
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
Not surprising – when have they ever learned from facts??? When your whole thought process is ideologically driven, facts are no consequence.
I think that a lot of Democrats and some Republicans will find that not paying attention to the “political facts” of the american public’s mood will cost them their jobs next november.
pride goeth before a fall…
Here’s more news along the same lines:
http://westinstenv.org/sosf/2010/01/21/the-epa-and-the-data-quality-act/
1. IPCC admits error on Himalayan glacier melt fiasco
2. U.N. abandons Copenhagen deadline – countries not signing on – spokesman says the deadline has gone “soft”
3. Scott Brown (Republican) wins Senate seat in Massachusetts
4. Air America Radio files for bankruptcy
5. Supreme Court rules against McCain / Fiengold extending First Amendment ‘rights’ to campaign spending.
[b]And there are still two days left in this week[/b]
old salt (17:12:28) :
Pamela Gray – “I hope that once (Republicans) have my interest, they don’t go all faith-based white on me. ”
I take it you’re a troll? How can this possibly add to the conversation
nope. she’s a regular since before i discovered wattsupwiththat. but, this is typical. i just ignore it now.
Finally some kind of common sense arrives in Congress. You have got to wonder why it is that it has taken til now to challenge a “finding” that a naturally occurring trace gas and the effervescent in beer, wine and soft drinks – is a POLLUTANT?? Good for you Lisa!
The joy in this is only (slightly) countered by the very sad news that Air America has crashed into Chapter 7 BK. Golly, we… won’t miss ya at all.
I’m ashamed that my senators from Texas didn’t think of this first. Good job, Lisa. Of course, Congress can always make an amendment to the Clean Air Act, which is the basis for EPA’s action (at least I think it is), stipulating that CO2 cannot be treated as a pollutant. To accomplish that, only a majority vote would be required (unless there is a filibuster). Whether the Pres would sign it is another matter, but by the time the litigation has run its course we will probably have a different President anyway.
Godfrey Bloom: Master of the understatement.
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