Through various regulatory actions, the Obama administration has kept pressure on Congress to tackle climate change this year. But Pelosi and other legislators have argued that the legislative branch has to address the issue.
Her comments come a week after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a big step toward regulating industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The agency issued rules that describe how it will apply the Clean Air Act to big facilities like power plants and oil refineries starting next year.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the co-author of Senate climate legislation, hopes the new rules bolster political support for his bill. Kerry and other climate advocates say Congress can give various industries far more flexibility and assistance than EPA is currently authorized to provide. Oh, boy! Just what they want!
Today we went from wake-up call' to last call' on the urgency of Senate action on comprehensive energy and climate legislation. The Obama Administration has again reminded Washington that if Congress won't legislate, the EPA will regulate,' he said when EPA issued its rule May 13.
But the looming EPA controls have also prompted many Republicans and some centrist Democrats to push bills that would suspend or reverse EPA's power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under its current powers. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) intends to force a Senate vote in the coming weeks on a plan that would block all EPA climate rules. Her resolution under the Congressional Review Act could not be filibustered, but would face a near-certain veto even if it cleared Congress.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has circulated a less sweeping plan that would block EPA regulation of stationary industrial sources like power plants and factories for two years. To get them through to the next election, I suppose.
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well, i happen to agree with Nancy on this (shudder)...
Congress and NOT the EPA should do the regulating. so lets get the EPA out of the regulation business. no need to add congress back in later, but please do remove the EPA now!
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Despite Eliot Spitzer's effort to rehabilitate his public image (including a regular gig as a political analyst on MSNBC) and hints that he'd one day like to return to public life, two-thirds of New Yorkers want Eliot Spitzer to stay the heck out of politics this year, according to a just released Marist poll. Maybe he's at MSNBC to try out the Matthews "Tingle" and the Maddow "Vibrate".
Dr. Lee Miringoff of Marist writes: "Eliot Spitzer's attempt to reconnect with New York voters is not paying off in the short-run. He has become more visible lately but not more electable."
The long run isn't looking much better for Spitz: a 52% majority - - including, unsurprisingly, 60% of women - say he should never run for public office again in New York.
In anti-handgun Chicago, criminals aren't bothered by Mayor Richard Daley's handgun ban. They haven't been bothered for years.
And so another Chicago police officer was shot to death. But it wasn't during a traffic stop or some hunt through an alley after a drug sting.
At that moment, Mayor Daley was holding a news conference, another dog-and-pony show at City Hall to demonstrate his tough stance on crime. He called it to express his concern that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the city's handgun ban. There were guns on a table as props, so much eye candy for the cameras.
A reporter asked the obvious question: Given the numbers of shootings in the city, isn't the handgun ban ineffective? Officer killed was a role model for all please read his story
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'Richie' embarrasses Chicago quite often, seemingly as an ongoing commitment to do so.
The dead still vote for him, however.
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As is said the fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree (referring to Daley the elder and Daley the son). Daley when questioned about firearms sounded like a blithering idiot.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the co-author of Senate climate legislation, hopes the new rules bolster political support for his bill. Kerry and other climate advocates say Congress can give various industries far more flexibility and assistance than EPA is currently authorized to provide.
