Republicans Target EPA Regulations of Big Polluters in Debt Talks
If Congress can’t reach a deal on the debt ceiling, we have a single week before the United States defaults on its debts, but the Republicans are still calling for some outrageous budget cuts to try to win the battle. The right’s latest targets are the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency. Republicans have proposed a bill that would cut the Interior’s budget by 7 percent and the EPA’s by 18 percent, which would thwart dozens of vital environmental regulations. If passed, the laws would severely limit the EPA’s power to regulate emissions from oil and gas companies, open up uranium mining in the Grand Canyon, allow mountaintop removal mining, and prohibit the Fish and Wildlife Service from adding new species to the endangered species list — and those are just the most extreme examples.
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