Journalism Shop member James Gerstenzang and Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, write in a Miami Herald article that hidden in a House-approved budget bill is a provision that may seriously damage the Clean Air Act:
Some of the nation's biggest polluters have teamed up with the Republicans to try to stop progress – just as more evidence documents global warming: The 10 warmest years on record have all been since 1998; last year was tied with 2005 as the hottest.
Together, they would turn the House into a special-interest court of appeals to circumvent the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that orders EPA to fight global warming. They would limit the clean air law's provisions protecting us from power plant pollution and block several states from adopting tougher pollution controls than the federal government. …
Now, automakers are demanding that politicians – not scientists – write the clean car standards intended to reduce carbon-dioxide pollution.
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