rssInhofe: After 2010, Senate Can Reverse EPA Decision
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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At the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) claimed that there were only 25 “aye” votes in the Senate for the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill. The “Climategate” scandal, over e-mails obtained from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit that skeptics claim to show scientists forging global warming data, had not had an effect on the vote because it was “already dead.”
I asked Inhofe whether he saw enough votes in the Senate to pass a law reversing the EPA’s “endangerment finding” of yesterday, which classified greenhouse gases as dangers to public health. It would be tough now, he said, and he didn’t want to put Republicans “on the spot.” But the situation would change if Republicans had more votes in the Senate.
“After the 2010 election,” said Inhofe, “I guarantee we’ll have the votes to do it.”
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Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
That make me feel so safe. I'm sure my grandchildren will thank Sen. Inhofe.
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 3:17 pm
Create and sow confusion and don't worry about the science. This is par for the course for the right wing and it's something they did during Bush's reign when they didn't have to worry about the democrats (timid as they are). They looked science in the eye and when what they saw didn't please them they ordered the results to be rewritten. Just ask Hansen.
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
That make me feel so safe. I'm sure my grandchildren will thank Sen. Inhofe.
You know, now that I think about it, I can't help but see a connection between the Copenhagen conference and these announcements by republican senators try to cast doubt about climate change. I wonder where Mr. Inhofe got his science degrees. Surely he's seen something that James Hansen missed in the data.
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 8:17 pm
Create and sow confusion and don't worry about the science. This is par for the course for the right wing and it's something they did during Bush's reign when they didn't have to worry about the democrats (timid as they are). They looked science in the eye and when what they saw didn't please them they ordered the results to be rewritten. Just ask Hansen.
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