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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Sorry oldsalt about my overuse of recently and underuse of reasonable grammar. I blame three things. One, using an iPhone with a screen comparable in area to half of my pebbled spectacles. Two, that you’d accused Ms G of being a troll.
And fourthly, I sometimes lose the thread of my argument.
Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
These Senators are in serious trouble in the polls. They are very likely to be voted out. I am thinking they are doing this to try to save their seat—I mean the part that goes in their seat.
A good time for a Republican senator to stand up to the EPA.
oyfomr (17:26:49) :
old salt (17:12:28) :
Pamela Gray
Kirls (17:34:17) :
etc,
we could just make a third party, The Tea Party. 🙂
HankHenry (17:02:47) :
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
I am sure she said that when there was 60 Democrat votes.
Give Pamela a break. She just saw Browns Cosmo spread.
That’s it isn’t it Pamela? :->
One more voice of sanity. How refreshing.
Somebody needs to clip the wings of those EPA fools, and Sen. Murkowski seems up to the task.
If I understand the Senate Rules, her presentation of the resolution is all that is needed. Nothign to vote on.
Well any members of Congress, including Babs Boxer herself; sorry I should call her Madam, can interven to negate Murkowski’s resolution by simply offering a bill to be voted on by the Congress.
What a radical idea, that the people who are elected to the Congress to make the laws (that’s why they are called the legislative branch) should actually write those laws, instead of unelected beurocrats in agencies.
I’m for ALL legislation and rule making being specifically passed by the Congress, and removing all rule making authority from every government agency.
a girl with a mind like a diamond
a girl who knows what’s best
with eyes that burn like cigarettes
a girl with the right allocations
who’s fast and thorough
and sharp as a tack
she’s touring the facility
and picking up slack
who uses a machete to cut through red tape
with fingernails that shine like justice
This is shaping up to be quite a week. We have a new all time record for speed, set by the Administration; from Inauguration to lame duck status and get it done with a full 24 hours to spare, in his first year. Congratulations Mr President.
photon without a Higgs (17:49:38) :
Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
These Senators are in serious trouble in the polls. They are very likely to be voted out. I am thinking they are doing this to try to save their seat—I mean the part that goes in their seat.
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IMHO, all the politicians are worried.
as they should be.
Mike D. (17:31:23)
‘They requested that EPA Admin Lisa Jackson conduct a review of the information the EPA used in their endangerment finding, and that she report to Congress as the whether the DQA was violated. …’
That’s the best news I have had today.
I would only hope our “Elected Elite” declare CO2 a non pollutant.
[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.”
Unprecedented? Oh no, there is a precedent for overturning a health finding by health experts.
http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/25/cei-releases-global-warming-study-censored-epa
Mike Ramsey
Kirls (17:34:17) :
As a Rebuplican by necessity I can relate to what she is saying. It’s one thing to believe in G-d, as did our Founding Fathers, and yet another to inject specific doctrines into politics, as some of the overly zealous do.
It’s important for America to realize that without G-d there is no America, but beyond that is a mine field to which few have the map.
It seems that Senator Murkowski has shaken off the CO2 chains that bind so many politicians. Makes me proud. Now if she would do the same concerning the Law of the Sea Treaty, a back door environmental treaty, she could absolutely have her way with me, electorally speaking.
photon without a Higgs (17:54:30) :
oyfomr (17:26:49) :
old salt (17:12:28) :
Pamela Gray
Kirls (17:34:17) :
etc,
we could just make a third party, The Tea Party. 🙂
I love Tea, Photon. It’s my very-nearly, bestest drink of all time.
But if we’re talking parties then we need to break the ice with alcohol first.
I’ll happily vote for a few hours of a good malt, followed by generous libations of vows of eternal friendship, finally topped by lashings of tea!
But, with a ndp of photon without a higgs, l will barely shrug a shoulder of surprise when you suggest that we end the evening by singing that old Alex Harvey number; “going to the Boson Tea Party”
🙂
IMO, the EPA attempting this is like if Homeland Security tried to grant amnsesty.
They are going to get slammed.
Come you guys in the US. You are the land of lawsuits. Sue the AGW alarmists to extinction for fraud, corruption, and unlawful biils in relation to CO2. Why not ban water vapor given it’s a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. using the logic of dumb AGW believers, water vapor is a poison too, right? Of course not. CO2 is essential to life. We actually need more if it to increase crop yields.
Mike D. (17:31:23) :
Here’s more news along the same lines:
http://westinstenv.org/sosf/2010/01/21/the-epa-and-the-data-quality-act/
The EPA and the Data Quality Act
She still doesn’t cut to the chase. Is it impossible for any public figure to just plain out say that man made global warming is not a real problem?
It has been an amazing week within an amazing past three months, hasn’t it?
I have found Pamela Gray to be anything but a troll. However, and what I ask affects many people on this site, we could profit from leaving religious beliefs out of this. There is no more committed atheist than me, and I have no trouble at all tolerating peoples’ religious beliefs–as long as they are willing to provide tolerance in return. Let us focus on the common enemy here:
1) Corruption of science
2) Economic stupidity
3) Unrestrained government power
4) Gullibility
Apparently the only problem with Alaska women is there aren’t enough of ’em.
IIRC Obama can veto the disapproval resolution though.
Once the EPA rechecks their data I’m sure they will find that the densest concentration of CO2 in the world originates from 535 exhaust ports found on Capitol Hill. One way the EPA could significantly reduce the denisty of CO2 worldwide is to invoke its special emergency superpowers and change the Constitution, to wit: henseforth each State shall be represented by one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives – that’s 100. And just think how big their offices will be.
Maybe Murkowski is a closet reader of WUWT. If so, stay sharp, ladies and gentlemen; she may be inviting other elected officials and their staff members to visit this site.
And regarding this:
“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.”
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Reply:
A cult never learns; it either gets swept aside or self-destructs, often by intense infighting. Why? A foundation of sand.
Do you know who owns Reuters? The Rothschild’s own Reuters. The Rothschild’s are fuming.
“The prospect of Environmental Protection Agency regulation as well as a growing threat of nuisance torts may be enough to garner support for the bill among emitters, Karmali said.
The cap-and-trade bill, expected to create a trillion-dollar carbon trading market, would cap carbon emissions and allow pollution permits to be traded.
If the bill does not pass, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may begin regulating carbon emissions for the first time.
“Right now, companies have a stark choice in front of them. One path is a market-based approach through cap and trade, another is EPA regulation… In terms of trying to steer things toward a positive outcome, clearly, the Senate would be a more manageable forum,” Karmali said.
In addition, a recent raft of climate-related tort suits which cite greenhouse gas emissions as a public nuisance may give some emitters additional incentive to support carbon control.”
Carbon market exec still hopes for Climate Bill
http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE60K72620100121