"As members of Congress wage war on the Clean Air Act, a new report released this morning by the Center for Biological Diversity shows why the 40-year-old law is the best tool we have to combat climate change. The report, called The Clean Air Act Works, highlights the law's long record of protecting our air, as well as its central role in helping the Environmental Protection Agency achieve necessary greenhouse gas pollution reductions -- which, starting this year, the agency has already begun doing."

Instead of stepping up efforts to wield the Act's massive potential in the global warming war, the U.S. House of Representatives last week voted to strip all funding from the EPA to reduce CO2, claiming it would harm the economy. On the contrary,  studies have found that clean energy creates jobs, compliance with CO2-reducing laws doesn't push industry overseas, and estimated costs of new environmental protections are routinely overstated.

Sad...:(

Source: center for biological diversity

(This was posted in March. I also found out that

the new budget will supply the EPA with an extra $46 million to regulate greenhouse gase pollution, as well as greenhouse gas reporting requirements.  Plus, funding for Fossil Energy Research and Development will be reduced $219 million, and funds for Coal Tax Preferences, Oil and Gas Company Tax Preferences, and the Oil and Gas Research Development Program would be completely terminated. That's good news :) )