The Gary Null Blog

 Rob Perks

March 30, 2011

http://www.grist.org/politics/2011-03-30-editorial-backlash-to-republican-budget-attack-epa-health

Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Make no mistake about it: The Clean Air Act is under attack from Congress. Indeed, in the U.S. Senate voting is imminent on several amendments to a non-related small business bill that would ditch, delay, or dilute the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to update and enforce air pollution standards.

The good news is that those who pick polluters over the health of Americans are continuing to get pummeled on America's newspaper opinion pages. These pieces say it best:

"An Assault on the Environment," Albany Times Union editorial

The new House Republican majority likes to say that the American people spoke last year. If the GOP's spending bill is any indication, it seems the American people are clamoring for more mercury in their fish, oil on their coasts and pollution in their drinking water. Those would be just some of the environmental highlights of a House spending bill to keep the government running through Sept. 30. Or perhaps anti-environmental highlights would be more apt. Anti-health, too.