From: Inside Climate News
By John H. Cushman Jr., InsideClimate
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Hearing meant to highlight some bipartisanship on EPA's new climate plan did more to expose the deep partisan divide over the issue.
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| Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, a Republican, speaks at an Environment and Public Works Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. At the hearing, four former Republican EPA adminstartors told Congress that it must step up to the responsibility of tackling climate change. Credit: C-Span |
By inviting four former Republican heads of the Environmental
Protection Agency to testify in favor of prompt climate change action,
Democrats on a Senate committee hoped to highlight some degree of
bipartisan support for the EPA's crackdown on carbon emissions from
power plants.
The four duly defended the agency and disputed the notion that air
pollution regulations are harmful to the economy. They also declared
their acceptance of the established science on man-made global warming
as an increasingly compelling reason to cut emissions.
"We have a scientific consensus around this issue. We also need a political consensus," said Christine Todd Whitman,
who was George W. Bush's EPA administrator, but who quit after the
White House decided against controlling CO2 under the Clean Air Act, as
the Obama administration is doing now. MORE
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