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Republicans Hijack Energy Reform

by: Jon Kantrowitz

Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 08:50:01 AM EDT


On April 17, 2009 EPA the formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that endanger public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that will lead to the regulation of the gases for the first time in the United States.

Industry representatives immediately started fighting the potential new regulations.

So did industry's paid henchman, the Republican Party. And it looks like they have won the battle:

Well,  when it comes to climate change policy making, the Republican Party can justly claim a major victory for its philosophy. We may have a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress, but the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 recently passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is very much a Republican bill characterized by a paucity of sticks and a plethora of carrots... Indeed, the bill specifically prohibits Obama's EPA from regulating these emissions.

The key provisions of the bill look like a Republican victory as well:


The bill's carbon-cap-and-trade provisions are by all reports its heart and soul.  They exemplify a Republican approach: Don't tell polluters what to do,  bribe them and hope they do what you want. Democrats have faked left and gone right.

A petition to delete the CO2 enforcement restriction is here.

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... to realize that the bill hasn't yet come to the floor. So there's still time.

I can understand why Congress would want to stop the EPA from regulating emissions -- if they feel like regulating carbon is a Congressional prerogative. But it sounds like a fine candidate for a veto.

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