Mike Crapo, Ron Wyden, James Risch, and Mark Begich have introduced S. 1369, the Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act, intended to evade the protections that are so clearly necessary. The legislation would exempt logging operations from anti-pollution regulations, allowing loggers to continue to create problems downstream without any consequences.

Who in Congress voted to increase pollution by offshore drilling operations in the Arctic? Who voted against increasing pollution?

It’s Jim Inhofe’s job, as a member of Congress, to provide that funding, not just to throw his hands up in the air and declare that Americans are going to have to drink dirty water just because he can’t be bothered to allocate the proper funds.

The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.

A roll call of the 28 Democrats who voted with House Republicans in favor of a scheme to encourage dangerous, dirty and rushed offshore oil drilling platforms, increasing the risk of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon calamity.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the American economy. Yet, most members of Congress are continuing to display the energy philosophy of the early 20th century – that oil is the answer to all of America’s needs.

James Moran has reintroduced the Plastic Bag Reduction Act.

This study may have a strong impact itself – on the debate over whether to allow fracking, which creates significant risks of pollution of groundwater, to be conducted over large areas of the United States that have been heretofore untouched. Natural gas has been promoted as a “clean burning” energy source, when compared to coal and petroleum, but the release of dangerous gases in the mining process has not been taken into account in such analyses.

Lead shot and lead sinkers that get into the ecosystem are consumed by animals that are then consumed by hunters, who then suffer the long list of maladies you see above. H.R. 1445 isn’t pro-hunter legislation. It’s putting hunters in danger. There are good, safer alternatives to lead.

a href=”http://thatsmycongress.com/house/repSpeierCA12112.html”>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.