"Clean Air" senators stand up for science and public health | 1Sky

First post by 1Sky Policy Fellow Julie Erickson. Alex B.

Last week, 1Sky fought behind opposite Senator Lisa Murkowski's (R-AK) impassioned efforts to tummy the Clean Air Act. Joining us were the horde of committed allies as well as some generally outspoken "Clean Air" senators who have been joining us in the fight opposite big polluters.

Last Thursday, rught away after Murkowski voiced her devise to introduce the "resolution of disapproval," all 12 Democrats upon the Senate Environment as well as Public Works (EPW) Committee held an puncture press discussion in which they spoke out decisively opposite the measure.

According to Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), "this is the initial time which the senator has tried to overturn the systematic illness ruling." Boxer described Senator Murkowski's conflict as the obvious as well as rare rejecting of meridian science, even of climatological studies finished underneath the Bush Administration. She additionally compared Murkowski's bid to overturning the anticipating which lead paint is harmful to brain growth in children.

In the blog post last Thursday, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) described Murkowski's conflict as, "a proposal to brazenly overturn receptive to advice systematic work done by the nations heading open illness experts," as well as "a domestic stunt written to effectively frame the EPA's power to curb harmful air pollution."

Many senators refuted Murkowski's claims which using the Clean Air Act to regulate CO emissions poses the threat to the economy. Instead, they asserted, reducing the CO emissions provides an opportunity to emanate millions of brand brand new jobs, as well as to unleash the brand brand new era of wealth based upon purify energy.

Shortly after Murkowski's announcement, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) came ! out with the sardonic examination of Senator Murkwoski's resolution, claiming which it "would send the summary which the United States will sojourn reliant upon old-fashioned as well as emasculate appetite technologies as well as check investment in new, purify technologies which would coax innovation as well as emanate good-paying, American jobs, all opposite this great nation."

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) justly incited Senator Murkowski's argument upon the head: "There have been genuine costs -- genuine mercantile costs, genuine costs in jobs -- to posterior the unsuccessful plan which Senator Murkowski suggests," he said. Whitehouse additionally recounted the story of past environmental laws. In every case, he said, polluters come kicking as well as screaming about all the mercantile harm which brand brand new legislation will do, yet their claims have been never even remotely accurate when brand brand new environmental laws have been enacted as well as enforced.

And as if which wasn't enough, Whitehouse additionally called the genuine bad guys out by name: "This is not just the special seductiveness that's objecting (to environmental regulation), this is the additional special interests which have been objecting: spark as well as oil."

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) invoked his grandchildren when vocalization about the importance of permitting the Clean Air Act to do what Congress intended for it to do: strengthen stream as well as destiny generations of Americans from environmental threats.

In addition to the senators upon the EPW cabinet who have spoken out opposite the Murkowski amendment, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pronounced last week which he would work to better the effort, describing it as the "highly domestic move, as well as the highly hazardous the single to the illness as well as the environment."

It is additionally value noting which the couple of Republican! s have s o far declined to sign upon to Murkowski's mortal amendment. These embody Olympia Snowe (R-ME) as well as Susan Collins (R-ME), both of whom have expressed poignant seductiveness in passing the comprehensive meridian bill this year. Collins has even co-authored the single with Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA).

Senator Murkowski's impassioned conflict upon the nation's many valuable square of environmental legislation is the transparent demonstration of her loyalty to Big Oil as well as Dirty Coal. While some members of Congress have been choosing to mount up for science, open health, as well as the goal for the brand brand new as well as colourful purify appetite economy, others have been shopping into the deception as well as fright of corporate lobbyists, including Democratic Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Blanche Lincoln (D-NE), as well as Ben Nelson (D-NE).

We must continue to let the representatives in Congress know which Senator Murkowski's efforts have been deadly. Call your Senator today as well as tell them to vote NO upon Murkowski, as well as instead to concentration upon office building the purify appetite future.

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