Pointed presser, no link, from the League of Conservation Voters, who should be applauded for their selfless educational work about the devastating effect of Brown’s Tea Party inspired anti-science anti-reason votes on the environment:
Scott Brown is trying to hide his record of obstructing President Obama’s agenda, claiming to be concerned about climate change at a recent debate despite the fact he’s voted to permanently prevent EPA scientists from curbing dangerous global warming pollution. As part of his 278 votes against President Obama, Brown has repeatedly voted to roll back Clean Air Act safeguards helping to combat climate change. …
As the Boston Globe noted, Brown “voted to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases.” In 2011, Brown voted for an amendment that would “prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from promulgating any regulation concerning, taking action relating to, or taking into consideration the emission of a greenhouse gas to address climate change.” One year earlier, Brown voted to move similar legislation forward that would also block all Clean Air Act limits on global warming pollution.
Now is the time to man up, Scott, and take responsibility for the votes you have taken, not try to hide from your record.
ramuel-m-raagas says
Where in the http://thomas.loc.gov server do I find our Clean Air Act?
Bernie Sanders is the real Independent. Scott is no independent. Scott is dependent on his Massachusetts Republican Party to send us trashy mailings containing baseless accusations against Elizabeth Warren. Senator Sanders came up with a Senate Resolution “Recognizing past, present, and future public health and economic benefits of cleaner air due to the successful implementation of the Clean Air Act.” (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.RES.119🙂
Was this Clean Air Act made public law in 1990? 1970? So was the original act signed as public law in 1970 and the amendments passed in 1990?
It may be resolved that clean air legislation “save[s us] drivers money at the gas pump by spurring fuel efficiency innovation, at an estimated savings to [us] drivers of [thousands of dollars] over the life of a vehicle,” but the retail price of gallons of gas has gone bad.
Democrats such as Congressman Frank have studied the hiking of gas prices, but how do we the general public put our foot down nowadays when our gallons of gas cost so much?
Riding a bike when we have lost snowfall seems healthy, but we need to drive cars and trucks to haul bark mulch and groceries. We need affordable gallons of gas.
Anyway, yes, we need to vote against Scott’s votes. I already voted absentee for Elizabeth Warren, and will campaign for her on November 6 (maybe in Brockton).
Warren’s books are about big money corporations (even credit card retailers such as Sears), but now our phone scripts for her explain that she is taking on big oil, too, for having received special deals from Washington, D.C.
I don’t know what Senate Committee(s) Elizabeth Warren will join. I do not even know who now sits in the one for Environment and Public Works. Anyway, Elizabeth for MA uses wind energy for its campaign literature. Warren will not dive in to pounding her chest as Mr. Coal and Nuclear. Nuclear Energy is clean until reactors blow up, so not even the brains in Harvard and MIT want to secure a nuclear power plant along the Charles River.