{"id":32440,"date":"2012-09-20T20:57:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T00:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=32440"},"modified":"2012-09-20T20:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T00:57:25","slug":"worst-environmental-bill-now-before-congress-denying-science-health-written-by-coal-industry-lackey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/worst-environmental-bill-now-before-congress-denying-science-health-written-by-coal-industry-lackey\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Worst Environmental Bill&quot; Now Before Congress: Denying Science &amp; Health, Written by Coal Industry Lackey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nTomorrow, the US House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 3409, the &#8220;Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill has been called the &#8220;single worst environmental law&#8221; proposed by the most virulently anti-environmental US legislators in history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2012\/09\/20\/worst-environmental-bill-now-before-congress-denying-science-health-written-by-coal-industry-lackey\/us-congress\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32471\" title=\"us congress\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/us-congress.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bill is aggressively anti-science and anti-public health. Its priority is made clear: the protection of the fossil fuel industry against the increasing public call for stricter environmental limits, protection from toxic air and water pollution, protection against climate change, and forward-thinking transitions to clean (non-fossil fuel) energy.<\/p>\n<p>The blatant anti-science language of the bill is startling. The proposed law states:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Climate change is not happening.<\/li>\n<li>Greenhouse gases\u00a0are not air pollutants.<\/li>\n<li>Motor vehicle emissions do not contribute to greenhouse gas p0llution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and many other variances to the &#8220;Earth is Flat&#8221; theme .<\/p>\n<p>The bill specifically proposes to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Repeal the EPA finding that &#8220;greenhouse gasses endanger public health and welfare.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Nullify existing EPA standards on mercury.<\/li>\n<li>Nullify existing controls on carbon pollution.<\/li>\n<li>Nullify carbon pollution standards recently put in place for autos.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ban the EPA<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong>ever<\/strong>\u00a0setting carbon pollution standards for refineries and power plants.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate the greenhouse gas reporting program (which simply required plants to report their emissions).<\/li>\n<li>Overturn the existing &#8220;Clean Water Act.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And more. (See below for reference to a complete review of the bill).<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate value of the bill is made clear in its provision to &#8220;<strong>compel the EPA<\/strong>\u00a0(Environmental <em>Protection<\/em> Agency)\u00a0<strong>to &#8220;consider industry cost when determining what level of air pollution is safe<\/strong>.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWho on Earth would sponsor such a bill &#8212; knowing what we have learned about the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, coal, and public health?<\/p>\n<p>The sponsor of this bill is Bill Johnson, US Congressman from Ohio<strong> &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>whose single biggest campaign financer happens to be <strong>Murray Energy, the largest privately owned coal company in the U.S. <\/strong>&#8212; headquartered in Mr. Johnson&#8217;s home state of Ohio.<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Corporate oil, gas and mining are, together, the largest industry contributors to Mr. Johnson&#8217;s campaigns, \u00a0providing a hefty $200,000 to him in the two years since his election to Congress in 2010. (See sources, below).<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/112\/hr3409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GovTrack.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.php?cycle=Career&amp;cid=N00032088&amp;type=I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Secrets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Long%20HR%203409%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Committee on Energy &amp; Commerce<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/switchboard.nrdc.org\/blogs\/dlashof\/the_assault_on_our_health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRDC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiovalleycoal.com\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murray Energy Corporation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Image Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=congress&amp;search_group=#id=113019124&amp;src=7028795de937683b24ea462784e4b929-1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Capitol Building<\/a> via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tomorrow, the US House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 3409, the &#8220;Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act.&#8221; The bill has been called the &#8220;single worst environmental law&#8221; proposed by the most virulently anti-environmental US legislators in history. The bill is aggressively anti-science and anti-public health. Its priority is made clear: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,50,12,21,23,26,30,35,38],"tags":[8468,12301,15766,29743],"spectra_custom_meta":{"_rpuplugin_enabled":["yes"],"fb_social_plugin_settings_box_comments":["default"],"dsq_thread_id":["899193377"],"penci_post_views_count":["1096"],"penci_post_week_views_count":["5"],"penci_post_month_views_count":["18"],"dpsp_networks_shares":["a:4:{s:8:\"facebook\";i:0;s:11:\"google-plus\";i:0;s:9:\"pinterest\";i:0;s:8:\"linkedin\";i:2;}"],"dpsp_networks_shares_total":["2"],"dpsp_networks_shares_last_updated":["1567093830"],"amazonS3_cache":["a:2:{s:88:\"\/\/wordpress-367309-1145695.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/us-congress.jpeg\";i:32471;s:96:\"\/\/wordpress-367309-1145695.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/us-congress-270x179.jpeg\";i:32471;}"],"rank_math_news_sitemap_robots":["index"],"rank_math_robots":["a:1:{i:0;s:5:\"index\";}"],"rank_math_og_content_image":["a:2:{s:5:\"check\";s:32:\"f98912474e02808fb5767b62754d6109\";s:6:\"images\";a:0:{}}"],"_uag_page_assets":["a:9:{s:3:\"css\";s:263:\".uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-desktop) !important}@media (max-width: 976px){.uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-tablet) !important}}@media (max-width: 767px){.uag-blocks-common-selector{z-index:var(--z-index-mobile) !important}}\n\";s:2:\"js\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"current_block_list\";a:4:{i:0;s:10:\"core\/image\";i:1;s:14:\"core\/paragraph\";i:2;s:12:\"core\/heading\";i:3;s:17:\"core\/latest-posts\";}s:8:\"uag_flag\";b:0;s:11:\"uag_version\";s:10:\"1714089639\";s:6:\"gfonts\";a:0:{}s:10:\"gfonts_url\";s:0:\"\";s:12:\"gfonts_files\";a:0:{}s:14:\"uag_faq_layout\";b:0;}"],"_uag_css_file_name":["uag-css-32440.css"]},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Don Lieber","author_link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/author\/donb\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"&nbsp; Tomorrow, the US House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 3409, the &#8220;Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act.&#8221; The bill has been called the &#8220;single worst environmental law&#8221; proposed by the most virulently anti-environmental US legislators in history. The bill is aggressively anti-science and anti-public health. Its priority is made clear:&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}