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As the Climate Turns: It's Just Incredible
The ups and downs of the climate debate strain credulity.
By Bill Chameides
The ups and downs of the climate debate strain credulity.
Senate Does Not Approve Of Disapproving
The Senate hasn't done much about climate.
In keeping with the gridlock spirit that is so very much in vogue these days, 47 members of the august body voted on Thursday to make the Senate's first significant climate act a non-act -- a "resolution of disapproval" (S.J Res. 26) that sought to block the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2). Alas, it wasn't to be: a whopping 53 senators voted down the disapproval by rejecting a vote on it. (See how your senator voted.)
Highlights From The Disapproving Side: Travel And Orwell
Six Democrats voted with their Republican colleagues to approve the disapproval.
Among them was "first comes my people" Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), whose opposition to EPA's authority was apparently largely a matter of travel experience -- in his floor speech he argued that while "most people have never been down a mine," he, after 25 years in Congress, doesn't "even know where EPA is located" and therefore he wanted to vote to disapprove. (You can watch all or part of yesterday's proceedings in the video below.)
To be fair to the senator, things tend to happen at a glacial pace in Congress, and EPA just moved into its current headquarters a mere nine years ago
Balance of article at URL above.
As the Climate Turns: It's Just Incredible
The ups and downs of the climate debate strain credulity.
By Bill Chameides
The ups and downs of the climate debate strain credulity.
Senate Does Not Approve Of Disapproving
The Senate hasn't done much about climate.
In keeping with the gridlock spirit that is so very much in vogue these days, 47 members of the august body voted on Thursday to make the Senate's first significant climate act a non-act -- a "resolution of disapproval" (S.J Res. 26) that sought to block the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2). Alas, it wasn't to be: a whopping 53 senators voted down the disapproval by rejecting a vote on it. (See how your senator voted.)
Highlights From The Disapproving Side: Travel And Orwell
Six Democrats voted with their Republican colleagues to approve the disapproval.
Among them was "first comes my people" Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), whose opposition to EPA's authority was apparently largely a matter of travel experience -- in his floor speech he argued that while "most people have never been down a mine," he, after 25 years in Congress, doesn't "even know where EPA is located" and therefore he wanted to vote to disapprove. (You can watch all or part of yesterday's proceedings in the video below.)
To be fair to the senator, things tend to happen at a glacial pace in Congress, and EPA just moved into its current headquarters a mere nine years ago
Balance of article at URL above.