EPA EMISSIONS PLAN IS ABOUT THE SCIENCE
EPA chief: ‘Climate change is not a religion’
Ben Wolfgang, March 4, 2015 (Washington Times)
“President Obama is guided solely by science when it comes to fighting global warming, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy told a Senate panel…rejecting claims the administration is doing the bidding of left-wing environmental groups and urging Congress to approve a 6 percent budget increase to help fund the agency’s ambitious climate change agenda…In heated exchanges with Republicans on the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee — who have helped lead the charge against Mr. Obama’s climate change policies — Ms. McCarthy defended her agency’s request for a $8.6 billion discretionary budget for fiscal year 2016. Some of the funding increase, laid out in the president’s broader budget proposal, would be dedicated to the White House’s [highly controversial] Clean Power Plan…The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon pollution from power plants by at least 30 percent over the next 15 years…Republicans say the EPA has not offered firm proof of exactly what impact the plan…[and the benefits] may not be worth the cost…” click here for more
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