The continuing resolution makes massive cuts to the EPA’s budget. The legislation cuts EPA funding by $3 billion, 29 percent below fiscal year 2010. Overall, Simpson cut $4.5 billion from his subcommittee’s budget.
Posted on 02/12/2011 12:22:23 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Hill E2 wire reports:
House GOP spending bill prohibits funding for EPA climate regs
A government spending bill unveiled Friday night by House Republicans would prohibit funding for Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations through September of this year.
The continuing resolution, which would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year, is the latest attempt by Republicans to stop EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Republicans argue that pending EPA climate rules will destroy the economy and result in significant job losses. GOP lawmakers, including House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), have introduced legislation to permanently block the agency’s climate authority.
The bill would block funding for all current and pending EPA climate regulations for stationary sources.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), the chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on interior and the environment, said he worked closely on the language with Upton. He said the language would give Upton time to move forward with his legislation.
“It has become clear to me in talking to the job creators in this country that allowing these regulations to go into effect would prevent job creation and inhibit economic growth at a time when our economy is still struggling,” Simpson said in a statement. “It should be up to Congress, not the Administration, to determine whether and how to regulate greenhouse gases, and in attempting to do so without congressional authority, I’m concerned that EPA has overreached.”
The continuing resolution makes massive cuts to the EPA’s budget. The legislation cuts EPA funding by $3 billion, 29 percent below fiscal year 2010. Overall, Simpson cut $4.5 billion from his subcommittee’s budget.
Full report here: House GOP spending bill prohibits funding for EPA climate regs
Outstanding!
News ping!
Pull the plug. Shut it down. Cut off the money. Let the EPA rot.
Say hello to my leetle fren, the TEA party......
The fact that the EPA has 8 billion to be cut tells me that they get way too much money.
How the hell does a regulatory agency justify that kind of expenditure?
YES!!!! Alright MICHIGAN, finally feeling good about my state!!!!!
Yes!
LOL!!! To funny!!
Make that 3 billion Duh.
The continuing resolution makes massive cuts to the EPA’s budget. The legislation cuts EPA funding by $3 billion, 29 percent below fiscal year 2010. Overall, Simpson cut $4.5 billion from his subcommittee’s budget.
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Ted says:
Having read a little more I’m putting the cork back in the Bubbly bottle maybe/ yes we definitely do we need a lot tougher medicine, it’s time to play hard ball.
I just read Steve Milloy, at Green hell blog and he has his pulse on this EPA and the Obama administration determination to shut down the economy.
Steve writes:
Does the GOP have a secret strategy? Has it forgotten the election? Or is it afraid of the EPA?
Senate and House Republicans just announced plans to introduce legislation stripping the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs). That sounds encouraging?
But the reality is that even if such a bill winds up on President Obama’s desk, he’ll veto it, and there aren’t enough Republicans to override a veto.
At best, these bills are political theater intended for impact in 2012. But the EPA isn’t waiting until then.
Its best (and really only) shot at reeling in the arrogant Obama EPA is to cut the agency’s funding. Without House approval, the EPA has no budget. A great opportunity to choke off EPA funding arrives early next month when last December’s deal to fund the federal government until March 4 expires.
Read more @ http://greenhellblog.com/2011/02/09/defund-the-epa/
or Article in The Washington Times @ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/9/defund-the-epa/
We need to push this at a political level.
Thanks Ernest. Lots of whining (trolls) about how the budget cuts that have been promised haven’t been enough, blah blah blah, this won’t shut them up of course.
It’s a start, but EPA has morphed into a power-hungry, gestapo-like beast and needs to be put down. The environment is just fine without their twiddling in everyone’s life.
I’m in Walberg’s district (7th) Where are you Lady?
Well it’s a start anyway. Let’s hope it sticks.
No, let's make it 8, LOL!
Cut their budget by $60 billion!
Yeah it was wishfull thinking.
As I understand it, the House has the spending power.
What happens to EPA funding if the President vetoes this bill?
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