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.
God help us. Now “anti-climate” is going to become a thing.
Have these two “women” produced any offspring?
Yes, one two headed goat and a ten pound slug.
Suck my ick!
Actually, it’s not an anti-climate executive order , it’s an anti-excessive-regulation executive order....
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Where do you think the term 'anti-climate-tic' came from?
Anti Climate? hahahahahahahaha
You got that right! Washington State is become a liberal quagmire as the Democrats spend all their time thinking of ways to fleece the citizens of their money.
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Fund raising letter material nothing more.
What percentage of that is taxpayer money? 90%? More?
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