Posted on 03/28/2017 6:56:13 PM PDT by mdittmar
Letter highlights economic, environmental, and security concerns for Western states
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Patty Murray (D-WA) joined eight U.S. Senators from six Western states, in urging President Trump to rescind the Executive Order issued today that attempts to reverse multiple major U.S. initiatives to combat climate change. The Senators wrote that the Order “fails to bring clean energy jobs to our rural communities, ignores the impacts that extreme weather will have on our economy and our national security, and does not decrease our reliance on foreign oil.”
“We stand ready to work with you and your Administration in reaching a balance between achieving energy independence, promoting innovation, and growing our rural economies,” the Senators wrote in the letter. “Unfortunately, your Executive Order takes the nation in the wrong direction. In order to account for the unique needs of our Western states, we respectfully request you rescind the Energy Independence Executive Order.”
The Senators outlined several reasons the President should rescind the Order, including that it fails to:
In addition to Cantwell and Murray, the letter was signed by U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Udall (D-NM), and Ron Wyden (D-OR).
Click HERE to read the letter in its entirety.
The donors who support us won't give us money for our reelection,Please Mr.President,the snow is melting,Look what you've done! I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world!
I love it when this is all they can do, ask Daddy to change his mind.
Rescind what he just signed??
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Dumb and dumber.
From two of the most do-nothings in Congress!
Not one of those tarts can speak intelligently to the speculative AGW grant models,
Oh is that all they want? No problem.
.........lefties are begging now!
Anti-Climate? As in against climate?
WTHeck?!
The liberal idea that once something is done, it cannot be undone.
All it takes is the will to undo it.
And still the Obamacare fiasco is a big fat white whale with a target on it...
No fricken way bitch. That hoax is dead!!
Elections have consequences. Get lost hoaxers.
Yes, I’m sure President Trump is anti-climate.
Senator Murray is evidently anti-smart.
I’m afraid these two bimbos are outnumbered by millions of Americans who are just tickled to death that PRESIDENT Trump put an end to this hoax and scam.
I've always been in the middle.
Sunshine on My Shoulders Makes Me Happy,Sunshine In my Eyes Can Make Me Cry;)
You must be from San Diego.
Here in eastern WA the ridges are outlined with a row of windmills.
Thousands of birds and bats are slaughtered by the blades, just so the libs in Seattle can have a warm feeling of being eco-friendly.
They don’t realize their electricity comes from our nuke plant and dams they want to tear down to get more salmon for the Indians to gill-net and sell to folks at rest stops on the freeway.
Our Algore disciple governor,Inslee, is a full tilt global warming fanatic.
when hell freezes over.
As usual, Democrats lie. The US is now exporting natural gas and is getting close to energy independence. OPEC has lost its might.
Anti-Climate? Anti-Climate? Yep. That’s us deplorables . . . we just HATE climate. We’re against it. Yep. Can’t stand it and will vote to eliminate it.
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