The Earthjustice Right to Breathe campaign details how real people will be impacted if pollution standards are not implemented in a timely manner. An Earthjustice staff member from until , Brian used outreach and partnership skills to cover many issues, including advocacy campaign efforts to promote a healthy ocean.
Our Stories. By Brian Smith August 29, A look at some of the bills the House Republicans passed in gives us some idea. According a report from Rep. Democrats will, of course, have to play defense, just like on Obamacare.
Any concessions Republicans can get will have serious consequences. Regulating methane leaks from fracking and pipelines in the booming natural gas sector is essential to meeting our climate change mitigation goals, so letting Congress block EPA action on this would be devastating. And what about actually making progress on combating climate change?
Obviously passing a freestanding cap-and-trade or carbon-tax bill through the Republican-led House was already a nonstarter. But there was one glimmer of hope some held out: that a big, bipartisan tax reform package could include a carbon tax.
It was always a bit of a pipe dream, but it made a certain sense: Republicans hate income taxes, which they say punish work, and they often argue for consumption taxes instead. Bipartisan tax reform was unlikely to happen, but it just became that much harder. Immigration reform has a lot of similarities to climate change legislation.
For cap-and-trade, that was Sen. Lindsey Graham; for immigration, it was Sen. The FBI, New York emergency services and the police are all investigating a letter which contained a threatening message referencing health care and a white powder.
Some Democrats have called out Republicans for egging on the hostility, pointing to specific examples of GOP behavior that could incite violence. Louise Slaughter D-N.
Richard Trumka, president of the labor federation AFL-CIO, released a statement today calling on leaders of both parties to come together to reject the recent violence. Yet he also condemned the Republican party for their actions on the House floor during last weekend's health care debate. The vitriol against lawmakers started last weekend when anti-reform protesters yelled racial epithets at black members of Congress and gay slurs at Rep. Barney Frank D-Mass.
Frank has tried to use the incident to rally his supporters, sending out a fundraising e-mail this week that says, "The ugliness in Washington last weekend, which I and others experienced personally, has raised the stakes for the November elections.
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