UNDERNEWS: House Republicans responsible for over 500 anti-environmmental votes

December 12, 2014

House Republicans responsible for over 500 anti-environmmental votes

New Republic - The House of Representatives will end its legislative session this week having recorded at least 234 votes against the environment in two years. According to a December 1 count by the minority staff on the Energy and Commerce committee, the House floor held 551 anti-environment votes over the four years since Republicans took control—including votes on bills and amendments that weakened Environmental Protection Agency regulations, opened lands to coal and oil, made changes to the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, approved the Keystone XL pipeline, and more.

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Charlie said...: Yes, Republicans may rightly believe that human life, created by the one true divine God, is made sacred, and necessary to protect, but plants, birds, animals, fish, insects, etc., by a lesser God, not of divine origin. Charlie; December 13, 2014 at 11:03 AM

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