TNDP: How Tennessee GOPers Celebrate Earth Day

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How Tennessee Republicans Celebrate Earth Day
http://tndp.org/blog/2009/04/22/how-tennessee-republicans-celebrate-earth-day/
April 22nd, 2009 by TNDP

Tennessee Republicans are celebrating Earth Day by pushing a raft of legislation meant to erode longstanding protections for Tennessee’s environment, especially our rivers. Take a look at this list of pending legislation:

SB0634 (Southerland) / HB0973  (McCord): Removes whistleblower protection, preventing regulatory agencies from acting on anonymous reports of illegal dumping

SB0631 (Southerland) / HB1616  (McCord): Removes protections for Tennessee’s polluted rivers (and violates the Clean Water Act)

SB0632 (Southerland) / HB1615  (McCord): Narrows the definition of “waters”

SB0633 (Southerland) / HB1617  (McCord): Defines “limited resource waters,” making smaller streams vulnerable

SB0198 (Bunch) / HB0425  (Bell): Prevents regulatory agencies from issuing emergency rules - instead, forcing them to wait for approval by the Legislature

SB1738 (Ramsey) / HB2009 (Mumpower): Makes it easier for companies to take more water from our rivers

SB1331 (Yager) / HB1204 (McCord): Allows mining companies to dump more selenium in our rivers

SB1112 (Overbey) / HB1622 (McCord): Prevents Tennessee from making air quality rules that exceed federal rules

SB1207 (Woodson) / HB1205 (McCord): Makes it harder for the Water Quality Review Board to protect Tennessee’s waters

SB1312 (Tracy) / HB1619 (McCord): Forces Tennessee to use the federal definition for Controlled Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), making it harder for us to control a significant source of water pollution
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[quidam56]

1. Tennessee sure has some strange way of looking at things...

guess the TVA dump hasn't been an issue at all. Profit care comes ahead of People care. http://www.wisecountyissues.com You wouldn't believe what "the acceptable standards of health care" are in Tennessee, nothing at all like the snake oil salesmen are selling us.