Under Attack from the Right: G.O.P. Pushes to Deregulate Environment at State Level

[flamingdem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/science/earth/16enviro.html

Weeks after he was sworn in as governor of Maine, Paul LePage, a Tea Party favorite, announced a 63-point plan to cut environmental regulations, including opening three million acres of the North Woods for development and suspending a law meant to monitor toxic chemicals that could be found in children’s products.

Another Tea Party ally, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, has proposed eliminating millions of dollars in annual outlays for land conservation as well as cutting to $17 million the $50 million allocated in last year’s budget for the restoration of the dwindling Everglades.

And in North Carolina, where Republicans won control of both houses of the Legislature for the first time in 140 years, leaders recently proposed a budget that would cut operating funds to the state’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources by 22 percent.

In the past month, the nation’s focus has been on the budget battle in Washington, where Republicans in Congress aligned with the Tea Party have fought hard for rollbacks to the Environmental Protection Agency, clean air and water regulations, renewable energy and other conservation programs. MORE AT LINK

[sasha031]

1. my aunt lives in Maine and loves that piece of #hit Lepage

he will take that beautiful pristine state and turn in into a disney park with wall to wall
mcmansions

[flamingdem]

2. Is there any way to recall him?

He's the worst of the bunch! Maine is so beautiful, and the coast spectacular.

[sasha031]

3. I'm not familiar with their politics

it's a lesson to be learned that the left need to get out and vote.