[OKC] House GOP loads bill with anti-environment riders, threatens shutdown

[Shauna Struby]

Tons of news & stories online today about this ...

 

House GOP loads bill with anti-environment riders, threatens shutdown

 

Voting largely along party lines, House Republicans loaded a stopgap funding
measure with amendments that would block EPA climate rules, gut landscape
conservation, stymie EPA rulemaking on coal ash, prevent preservation of
national monuments, stop the "Greening the Capitol" program, quash a
Chesapeake Bay cleanup, de-fund a National Park in former Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's district, hamstring EPA's effort to control mercury air pollution,
and fire President Obama's climate negotiator and policy "czars." The House
could pass the spending measure today, sending it to the Senate on a
take-it-or-leave it basis, with GOP leaders threatening a government
shutdown if the Senate does not comply.

 

David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times February 17, 2011.
http://nyti.ms/hePJTC 

 

Shauna Lawyer Struby

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