Republican Boycott Blocks Senate Panel Vote on EPA Subpoena

[babsbunny]

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002925219

By Avery Palmer, CQ Staff

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee canceled a vote Thursday to subpoena the EPA administrator after Republicans boycotted the meeting.

Under committee rules, two Republicans must be present in order to achieve a quorum. Chairwoman Barbara Boxer , a Democrat who represents California, is seeking a draft document the EPA prepared late last year that found that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public welfare.

The EPA draft was part of a response to a 2007 Supreme Court decision that found greenhouse gases were pollutants under the Clean Air Act. If the EPA decides emissions endanger the public, the next step would be regulations to limit those emissions.

The EPA forwarded the document to the White House in an e-mail message in December. The White House then refused to open the document and asked EPA officials to retract it.

The EPA recently decided to seek comment on greenhouse gas regulations but is unlikely to move forward under this administration.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Our health is in the hands of them FUCKERS....and they boycott to protect who? The Lobbyists? Fascis...

Typ Pub action of delaying efforts to clean the shit coming outta smokestacks of OUR Factories/industries.