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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIgnoring the Public, GOP Leadership Promises Worst Attack on Environmental Protection in Decades
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Heres some of what GOP leaders have said they would do to America:
There are many more: forcing approval of the disastrous Keystone XL pipeline, opening our coastal waters and the Arctic Refuge to risky oil drilling, blocking federal efforts to protect drinking water from oil and gas fracking activity, and opening our national forests to loggers, to name just a few.
These extreme actions would put people and places at risk. They would also endanger an entire system of environmental protection that generations of Americans have relied upon.
1. Block the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting dangerous carbon pollution from power plantsthe most important step we can take to curb climate-changing carbon pollution.
2. Stop an EPA proposal to restore protections to streams and wetlands that feed into the drinking water supplies of 117 million Americans.
3. Prevent the EPA from even proposing new safeguards for smog-causing ozone; scientists have found current standards are too lax, forcing people to breathe air that is unhealthy and even fatal for children and adults with asthma and other lung problems.
4. Take away the ability of scientists and experts to set health and environmental standards and give politicians the power to decide what is safe for our families using the so-called REINS Acta law that would require Congressional approval for every new standard and gut our nations time-tested method of review.
There are many more: forcing approval of the disastrous Keystone XL pipeline, opening our coastal waters and the Arctic Refuge to risky oil drilling, blocking federal efforts to protect drinking water from oil and gas fracking activity, and opening our national forests to loggers, to name just a few.
These extreme actions would put people and places at risk. They would also endanger an entire system of environmental protection that generations of Americans have relied upon.
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Ignoring the Public, GOP Leadership Promises Worst Attack on Environmental Protection in Decades (Original Post)
Triana
Nov 2014
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(297,323 posts)1. yeah, thank you to all who sat out this election for whatever reason..NOT But, the Vital Reason you
shouldn't have is exactly this and I've been posting that around all night long.
Thanks Triana
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(28,762 posts)2. I wouldn't be surprised if they logged out Yosemite National Park.