Posted on 02/22/2010 6:10:43 AM PST by milwguy
A Senate hearing this week ostensibly to review the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) budget request is likely to turn into a broader debate on global warming, with Republicans seizing a chance to challenge the administrations push to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in an open forum.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is scheduled to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday.
Senate Republicans, along with a few Democrats, are trying to keep the EPA from moving forward through the Congressional Review Act, which enables Congress to block federal regulations. Republicans on the committee are likely Tuesday to try to build a case in support of that effort.
To regulate heat-trapping gases, the EPA had to find that greenhouse gas emissions endangered human health and welfare. The endangerment finding relied in part on a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that said humans were causing global warming.
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The chance that the GOP would really try to cut off funds: 0%
When did the GOP really ever spend less?
Ping.
Why stop with the EPA? Let’s also slash the Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and...
Action against EPA abuse by private enterprises:
Action against EPA abuse by state/federal government:
This Senate hearing may finally get the Climategate story and all the IPCC’s claims that lack scientific merit in the state controlled media, IMHO.
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