Republicans attack Obama's environmental protection from all sides

[annabanana]

# guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 March 2011 20.05 GMT
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/49-49/5169-republicans-attack-obamas-environmental-protection-from-all-sides

It started on a sultry day in Houston when hundreds of protesters, mostly oil company employees, were bussed to a concert hall in their lunch hour to rally against a historic first step by Congress to reduce the pollution that causes climate change.

The event marked the start of a backlash by wealthy industry owners and conservative activists against Barack Obama's green agenda. Now it has snowballed into what green campaigners say is the greatest assault on environmental protection that America has ever seen.

Eighteen months after that Houston rally, the green agenda is under assault on multiple fronts, from cutbacks in recycling in Wisconsin to the loosening of regulations governing coal mining in West Virginia and a challenge to the authority of the White House and federal government to act on climate change.

"This is almost unprecedented in environmental history, in that they are moving in so many directions and in so many ways to effect the same results that even if they are only partly successful, it will still have a serious outcome," said Bill Becker, secretary of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, which monitors air pollution.

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[LawnKorn]

1. The Republicans are marshaling the anti-environments to advance their profit agenda

We the Koch brothers funding 'scientific' studies to disprove global warming on one side. We have astro turf demonstrations leveraging the current middle east crises to permit off shore drilling on the other.

We are under attack by the right wing capitalists using their uneducated minions in the quest for increasing the wealth of the people at the top.

[ladjf]

3. Well written post,especially the first sentence, "... to advance their

profit agenda".

[ladjf]

2. The locusts are swarming. nt

[BobbyBoring]

4. I wish

I could wrap my mind around greed this evil but I can't. One needn't believe every scientific study. One just needs to see what's happening around the world to see that global warming is real and we're causing it. To be willing to destroy your planet for the sake of money is the ultimate evil.

I sometimes wonder if these deniers haven't "Invested" in another planet that one can move to if they have "The price of admission".

That's the only way this would make sense~