REPUBLICAN LEADERS URGE ACTION ON CLIMATE

Bipartisan former US EPA chiefs: Stop stalling on climate change policy

Kerry Sheridan, June 18, 2014 (AFP via Tico Times)

“Four former heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who served under Republican presidents urged lawmakers…to stop bickering over whether climate change is real and start finding solutions…Global warming is an increasingly polarizing issue in U.S. politics…[Sen. Ron Barrasso (R-WY)] and fellow senators on the bipartisan [Committee on Environment and Public Works] spent the entire first hour of [a recent hearing debating] the legitimacy of climate science…The four former EPA administrators who testified at the hearing included those who served over the past four decades under presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush…[Their] op-ed in the New York Times last year that said there was no longer any credible debate over whether humans were causing climate change…At the hearing, they reiterated this stance, and said stricter pollution limits mean job creation is likely in the fields of renewables, nuclear, clean goal and natural gas…They also urged lawmakers to put aside their differences…” click here for more

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