E.P.A. Faces First Volley From the House

[phantom power]

Remarkably, the GOP does not seem to let the fact that it controls only one house of Congress stop them. I wonder if the Dems will ever learn something from that.

On the first full day of legislative business, House Republicans introduced measures on Wednesday to block the environmental agency’s proposed regulation of greenhouse gases and new rules limiting toxic air emissions from cement factories.

The bills represent what is certain to be a concerted effort by the new House majority to address what they consider to be burdensome environmental rules, part of a broader assault on what Republicans characterize as job-killing regulations from the executive branch.

Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California and new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has asked lobbyists and trade organizations to identify the federal rules they would most like to see overturned, and the E.P.A.’s air quality regulations were high on the list.

Representative Fred Upton, the Michigan Republican who has taken over as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said last weekend that he would consider a variety of legislative weapons to undo environmental regulations, including the new E.P.A. rules on greenhouse gases. He said that the Obama administration should not try to do by regulation what it cannot do by legislation, including addressing climate change by reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases.

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/e-p-a-faces-first-volley-from-the-house/

[shraby]

1. The Dem congress passes over 400 bills that never made it

through the Senate because of Republican obstruction. Now it's the Republican's turn to pass "stuff" and see it die in the Senate.

[madrchsod]

2. the senate dems won`t cave to the house republicans?

i guess we will have to wait and see...