Comment: The GOP from VA is part of this dirty bunch, their only goal is not to protect VA people but to protect corporations so they will get more monies from corporations! Greedy, evil......
By Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) - 07/19/11 06:12 PM ET
These days, sitting through hearings on the House Natural Resources Committee means watching environmental standards get rolled back one by one. The House majority has an agenda to repeal decades of conservation progress in this country, and they’re not slowing down.
My predecessors in this congressional seat, Morris “Mo” Udall (D) and his older brother, Stewart (D), would be shocked at this misguided effort to gut the kind of sensible conservation policies they championed — policies backed by Americans from both sides of the aisle.
In all, the bill “waives” 36 conservation and pollution-control laws, including such basics as the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Wilderness Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
Passing this bill would mean saying goodbye to more than a century of hard-won land- and wildlife-protection and pollution-control laws.
This same group is adding language to spending bills that cuts protections for clean water, endangered species and wildlands, as well as open public lands around Grand Canyon National Park to new uranium mining.
If these bills are passed, they will undermine fundamental conservation laws fashioned over decades and with bipartisan support.
I hope conservation-minded Republicans, as well as Democrats, will join me in holding the line. If you enjoy the outdoors, these bills just don’t make sense.
Read more:
http://thehill.com/special-reports/energy-july-2011/172373-republicans-trying-to-turn-back-clock-on-bedrock-environmental-protections
