Posted on 01/06/2011 9:05:11 AM PST by Libloather
Republicans kill global warming committee
Mother Jones: Republicans have disbanded the one committee devoted solely to climate change and energy issues. At least it went out on its own terms
Kate Sheppard for Mother Jones guardian.co.uk
Thursday 6 January 2011 15.51 GMT
The kick-off of the 112th Congress on Wednesday also marked the end of an era in the House – the demise of a committee devoted solely to climate change and energy issues. The Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, created by Nancy Pelosi in 2006, has been shuttered under the new Republican leadership. In the final days of the committee, staffers released a report on what the committee accomplished in its brief tenure – an epitaph of sorts.
Tackling issues from the politicisation of climate science to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, the committee held 80 hearings and briefings. It played a role in shaping policy for the 2007 energy bill, the 2009 stimulus package (which included $90bn [$58bn] in energy, efficiency, and other green elements), and, of course, the 2009 climate bill (the one that never became law, of course, because the Senate didn't act on it).
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One down, a gazillion to go, but it’s a start.
There is hope, then.
Glad to hear this! Great start!
Woo hoo!! Go get ‘em Tigers!!
A small light at the start of the big deep abyss
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....
(More work time now to devote to REAL problems!)
Some sanity returns to the peoples House.
Whoopsy.
YEEEEESSSSSS!
Your lightbulbs are all well and good. But this is still a big issue, since the rest of the industrialized world is paying a lot of attention to these issues. Has the responsibility for energy issues been assigned elsewhere?
Now eleiminate funding for the EPA and Energy Department!
They get my commendation. Now bring back incandescent bulbs.
Open up the oil wells! Free toilets and showerheads of Federal regulations! Ban all regulation of filament lightbulbs!
LOL!!! Love it!
We still have a department of energy, and a ton of redundant oversight on this issue. Frankly, it’s a market issue more than an issue requiring regulation and oversight.
I hope the next move is the reclassification of 1000’s of square miles of ‘wilderness’ to be open to drilling and development. (Mining of rare earths, for example).
Yeah...maybe to the PRIVATE SECTOR where it belongs!
But...
There is one less cockroach in the world.
Excellent. The fun is just beginning.
OK, but what are they going to do tomorrow? And the day after that? I don’t want “symbolic” change, I want REAL change. KEEP IT COMING.
Or, we will find legislators who will.
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