G.O.P. Pushes to Deregulate Environment at State Level

[spanone]

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/science/earth/16enviro.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

[Tippy]

1. I have to wonder if their children will be happy

With the choices their paents made when they can't fish in the streams or have wear some thing to assist their breathing.

[spanone]

2. why do republicans hate the earth?

the party of science denial

[WinkyDink]

13. THIS. It's as if they do not care about their own blood. As if a $$ bequest is all that matters.

[catgirl]

3. My teabagger rep is introducing similar proposals (NH)

Saying it is too costly to regulate pollution.

[spanone]

4. the party of deregulation...cause we all know people & corporations regulate themselves

:sarcasm:

[dkf]

5. Why don't wealthy people rebel at this?

You would think they want to live long.

[atreides1]

9. Because

Their real homes are in other places where the having a great environment is the draw...in other words they won't shit in their nests but they don't have a problem shitting in ours.

They can leave the trash dump that they'll make of this country anytime they want.

[dkf]

10. Water systems aren't so enclosed.

Can't avoid that.

[iwishiwas]

6. Walker, is doing the same In WI--with the help of Prosser and Koch....

http://buckyville.yuku.com/topic/41541/matter--hand-crushing-Wisconsin-s-environmental-regulatio

[spanone]

7. preserving our environment should be beyond political bullshit

profit over preservation.....i guess that's what it's all about to the party of science denial

[iwishiwas]

11. Obviously Mother Earth only means for profit to the Repugs.

[malaise]

8. The ReTHUG stupid burns

Apparently this is good for the future generations
:puke:

[Overseas]

12. I hope The Koch Party can be stopped.

I hope these moves against another broadly shared value of protecting our environment can get the media and public to recognize that what used to be desperate citizens groups have now become The Koch Party.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. Air and water do not respect state boundaries.

We all live downstream or downwind from somebody else; what affects the environment in one state affects us all.