No, fixing a problem is not the real issue. I think creating a new "problem" is. You are absolutely correct in your assessment of these bills. They are promoting a socialist agenda. We are so screwed if these bills pass.
What the problem is, is that our attention has been on Iraq, and the attacks on the President and his administration. I think that everyone has been focusing on the war, and that's what these "elected officials" are counting on. They're hoping that us nutcases won't notice these bills being pushed through the system.
Eggs, you can borrow one of my spare tinfoil hats ;-)
JR and all: who do we contact, and how can we stop them?
You have articulated the essential essence of the matter!!! (worth repeating)
They are promoting a socialist agenda.
I'm not radically opposed to everything concerning the environment because I am not a fool. Many good things have been discovered to help mankind use the forces of nature to improve our human processes over the past four decades. Mostly by businesses and industries that have found that nature can be an ally, instead of some tool of the devilish EnvironMentalists to taunt and torment them with!
I object with all that's in me when our GOVERNMENT is used in an overkilling kind of brutish attempt to suffocate economic processes, to weaken American Industry and Commerce to create some imagined "equality" among nations!!!
I also object just as strenuously when I discover one element in business & industry using GovernMental EnvironMental Activism to drive their competitors out of business or even to get a competitive edge, or to create some imagined "equity" among enterprises!!!
The "Public Trust Doctrine," derived from ancient Rome, that says "No one can own the air and no one can own the water" is being expanded by these lawmakers to include... NO ONE CAN OWN THE LAND, EITHER!!! (ownership used to imply control, remember?)
So your astute comment pulls the covers on their Socialistic Agenda!!! (and it ain't "tinfoil" neither!)