House Budget Protects Oil Companies, Jeopardizes Americans’ Health

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Source: NWF

Proposal includes attacks on the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act and slashes investment in public lands, wildlife conservation, and clean energy
The House Appropriations Committee last week unveiled its Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year. The proposal includes two attacks on the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act and slashes investment in public lands, wildlife conservation, and clean energy - but leaves billions in annual subsidies intact for oil companies already raking in billions in annual profit.
The proposed legislation protects recent loopholes in the implementation of the Clean Water Act that jeopardize the drinking water for 117 million Americans and have opened 20 million acres of wetlands and prime wildlife habitat to polluters and developers. The CR bans the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from working to close these loopholes.
The Clean Air Act prohibitions in the bill would place an unprecedented blindfold and gag order on the Environmental Protection Agency, requiring the agency to turn a blind eye to carbon dioxide pollution from smokestacks, in defiance of the Clean Air Act, a Supreme Court order and sound science.
“I grew up in Pittsburgh at a time when chemicals filled our rivers and unchecked air pollution clouded our air,” said Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. “I worked to help pass the original Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act and have been proud to watch them work for nearly two generations to help restore my hometown – not just its environment but its economy, now revitalized by clean energy jobs. It’s outrageous that anyone would want to take us back to the era of Love Canal, Silent Spring, and the flaming Cuyahoga River.”
According to summaries posted by the House Appropriations Committee, the CR legislation proposes dramatic cuts of $4.4 billion to the budgets for Interior and EPA.

Read more: http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/News-by-Topic/General-NWF/2011/02-14-11-House-Continuing-Resolution.aspx

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so much more to the link, rec

[liberal N proud]

1. Proving the GOP are corporate whores

[chowhound]

2. this is nothing more than repubes doing what they do

which is why dems cant sit out elections, even if they dont get everything they want exactly as they want it right away.