Budget debate could turn into global warming fight at Senate hearing (cut off EPA's cash!)

A Senate hearing this week ostensibly to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget request is likely to turn into a broader debate on global warming, with Republicans seizing a chance to challenge the administration’s 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.

I say we just cut off 75% of the funds for the EPA and lay off about 75% of the staff. The agency is bloated and just like our state DNR, has nothing better to do than enact rules (not laws) which make doing business in this country more difficult and expensive.

EPA: An unelected, flunky bureaucracy wielding rogue powers based in junk science. A cancer on the private sector.

Action against EPA abuse by private enterprises:

Action against EPA abuse by state/federal government:

Thanx !

Beam me to Planet Gore !

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