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Republican Leadership Shuffle Churns Up Anti-Environmental Extremists
2014-06-20 18:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The recent ouster of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) from his Congressional seat has shaken Washington Republicans and rattled open several leadership positions. And--as hard as it is to believe--the House Republican conference apparently hadnt even hit bottom yet. Youd think that itd be hard to get much worse than Cantors record when it comes to clean air, clean water and action to tackle the climate crisis. As Majority Leader, Cantor worked side by side with Speaker John Boehner...
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Republican Leaders Threaten Another Govt Shutdown Over Climate Action
2014-06-20 16:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Republican leaders in the Senate took America one step closer to another government shutdown this week, foreshadowing a possible replay at the end of September. Instead of voting on straightforward bills to fund government operations, GOP lawmakers held the appropriation bills hostage with unrelated amendments. These riders would block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from addressing climate change and keeping pollution out of our water. The Republican Party is bending over backward...
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Republican ex-EPA chiefs say its time to act on climate change
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Herald: Four administrators of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who served under Republican presidents told a Senate panel Wednesday that climate change is real and the federal government has the responsibility and the legal authority to combat it. While saying they might differ on the details of how U.S. officials should react, the former administrators said the cost of delay _ or of doing nothing _ was high. In a hearing before a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee, William Ruckelshaus...
4 former Republican EPA chiefs laud power plant rule in Senate hearing
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: Four former Republican U.S. EPA administrators praised the agency's climate change rule for existing power plants today in a Senate hearing room packed with coal miners expressing fear that the proposal would strangle their industry. The administrators told an Environment and Public Works subcommittee that current Administrator Gina McCarthy did what the Clean Air Act required in her proposal aimed at curbing the power sector's greenhouse gases. The rule was printed in the Federal Register today,...
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Republican EPA chiefs to Congress: Act on climate
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue Ridge Now: Top environmental regulators for four Republican presidents told Congress on Wednesday what many Republican lawmakers won't: Action is needed on global warming. In a congressional hearing organized to undermine Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's environmental proposals, Senate Democrats asked the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency for Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan to discuss the risks from climate change and what should be done about it....
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