Republicans vow to gut the EPA

[cali]

Jerry Lewis pledges to strip funds for climate rules


Rep. Jerry Lewis is hoping to strengthen his bid to chair the House Appropriations Committee by threatening to strip funding from the Obama administration’s controversial environmental rules.

The California Republican vying for the gavel of the powerful spending panel sent a letter Monday to the Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson warning that the GOP-led House plans to strip funding for agency regulations and conduct “unprecedented levels of oversight,” with a particular focus on the administration’s climate change policies.



“In addition to scrutinizing the agency’s entire FY 2012 budget, with particular attention on the agency’s rulemaking process, the House Appropriations Committee will be exercising its prerogative to withhold funding for prospective EPA regulations and de-fund through the rescissions process many of those already on the books,” wrote Lewis, who chaired the spending panel in 2005 and 2006.

Specifically, Lewis said he wants to target EPA’s “ongoing arbitrary interpretation of the Clean Air Act” to begin regulating greenhouse gases in January. He said he will refuse to support federal funding to regulate greenhouse gases in the 112th Congress “unless Congress passes bipartisan energy legislation specifically providing the authority to do so.”

Lewis also signaled plans to target EPA agricultural regulations dealing with spilled milk on dairy farms, airborne dust, lawn fertilizer and arsenic in ground water.


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[musette_sf]

1. Again?

So the Dems are eternally fated to rebuild the sand castles knocked over by the beach bullies?

[Hawkeye-X]

2. They can gut it, but they won't be able to do a damn thing

so it'll remain fully funded. The thugs had a chance to destroy EPA during the Chimp years, failed to do so.

[somone]

3. The house that Nixon & Ruckelshaus built

Idiots.

[JBoy]

4. Everything Repubs know about the EPA is from watching Ghostbusters.

BTW, early Rush Limbaugh:

[Winterblues]

5. Obama wants to work more closely with them..

Republicans want to gut America and Obama is willing to work more closely with them in that endeavor..:shrug:

[opihimoimoi]

6. Nope...me thinks ROPE A DOPE....