Politics
Republicans launch swift attack on Obama’s climate agenda
Loading ...The newly empowered Republicans tabled three separate bills, all of which aim to thwart efforts by the Obama administration and the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, and power and industrial plants, using the existing Clean Air Act.
A bill introduced by representative Ted Poe of Texas would block the EPA from drawing on any funds to implement and enforce regulations covering greenhouse gas emissions, while a separate bill tabled by representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee would amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the regulation of greenhouse gases under the legislation.
Meanwhile, representative Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia introduced a more modest bill that would delay EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by two years — a proposal that has also been pursued by some Democrat legislators from coal states, including Jay Rockefeller.
The three new bills represent the first shots in what is threatening to become a ferocious battle between Republicans and Democrats over the EPA’s right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and the direction of the Obama Administration’s wider climate change strategy.
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