Polluters Saddle Up In Washington, D.C.

As congress, especially the so called right who don't represent the people of this country, keep adding onto the huge breaks given industry and corporations, along with fighting regulating the not so honest bottom line execs of, the more people suffer the results from. Those results and people are usually the ones who cannot afford the care needed, but also those who can, for their deteriorating health problems, or the children born with, thus that cost gets passed on as the health industry, an industry that shouldn't be bottom line managed, rapidly raises the cost of that care.

Congress gives industry free ride on back of environmental protections

22 July 2011 - Perhaps inspired by the triple-digit heat afflicting Washington D.C., the House of Representatives is putting legislative flames to our important environmental and public health protections.

This week, the House will consider a spending bill for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service and other federal agencies. The bill is stuffed with open attacks by House Republicans on protections for our air, water, wildlife and iconic places.

Laden with nearly 40 so-called anti-environmental “riders”— policy provisions added to a measure having little or nothing to do with the appropriating funds—the bill hasn’t even reached the House floor yet. One provision will lift a moratorium on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon--one of the world’s seven natural wonders, and the only one in the U.S.


Another rider prevents the Fish and Wildlife Service from spending any money to implement important functions of the Endangered Species Act. The federal government would not be able to list new species as endangered or threatened, designate habitat critical to a species’ survival, or upgrade the status of any species from threatened to endangered. Immediately threatened by this action are the 260 candidates species that the Fish and Wildlife Service is considering for protection under the Endangered Species Act.

What are protected by these riders are polluters. read more>>>