{"id":17605,"date":"2015-11-18T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17605"},"modified":"2015-11-18T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T18:57:35","slug":"republican-senators-sabotage-epa-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/18\/republican-senators-sabotage-epa-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Senators Sabotage EPA Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know why Republicans are so in love with enforcing climate change.  Ok, actually, I do.  Republicans love the huge bundles of secret cash that they get from corporate criminals, who think nothing of destroying our earth en exchange for more dirty profit.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1118EEPAegs\"The Senate voted on Tuesday to block President Obama\u2019s tough new climate change regulations, hoping to undermine his negotiating authority before a major international climate summit meeting in Paris this month<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The Senate resolution, which passed 52 to 46, would scuttle a rule that would significantly cut heat-trapping carbon emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. That Environmental Protection Agency rule, released in August, is the centerpiece of Mr. Obama\u2019s efforts to address climate change. A second resolution, which also passed 52 to 46, would strike a related E.P.A. rule intended to freeze construction of future coal-fired power plants. <\/p>\n

Three Democrats from states in which coal plays a major role in the economy, Senators Joe Manchin<\/font> III of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp<\/font> of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly<\/font> of Indiana, broke party ranks to vote in favor of the resolutions<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

But three moderate Republicans, two up for re-election next year, Senators Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Mark S. Kirk of Illinois, as well as Senator Susan Collins of Maine, broke from their party to vote against the resolutions and back the environmental regulations. <\/p>\n

If the resolutions reach the president\u2019s desk, Mr. Obama has promised a veto<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I think the author has it right when he says Republicans want to undermine Obama\u2019s negotiating authority.  To intentionally sabotage the ability of President Obama to conduct foreign policy is criminal sedition.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know why Republicans are so in love with enforcing climate change.  Ok, actually, I do.  Republicans love the huge bundles of secret cash that they get from corporate criminals, who think nothing of destroying our earth en exchange for more dirty profit. The Senate voted on Tuesday to block President Obama\u2019s tough new […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}