Jackie Speier Accuses Colleagues Of Taking Dirty Money
H.R. 910 would block the Environmental Protection Agency from doing its job: Protecting Americans from threats to their environment. The bill would ban any EPA regulations of greenhouse gases, although those gases have been definitively linked to dangerous climate changes that in turn threaten human health and wealth.
H.R. 910 is designed to provide special benefits for a certain industry: Fossil fuel energy corporations. Last year, that industry provided untold, but certainly immense, amounts of direct campaign contributions and independent expenditures to assist members of Congress obtain and retain the seats they hold today.
Yesterday, U.S. Representative Jackie Speier accused her colleagues of supporting H.R. 910 because of the money they have been given by oil, gas, and coal companies – and because of the money they hope to collect from the industry in the future. It was an accusation, in effect of bribery. Speier said,
“Republicans are calling this bill the Energy Tax Prevention Act, except there is nothing to do with preventing taxes in the bill. Instead, this Dirty Air Act is a giveaway to any company who wants to dump pollution into the air free of charge and is a big gimme to all the Members of Congress hoping to collect their share of dirty campaign contributions.”
