U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Under Attack

38% of 2GreenEnergy readers live outside the U.S., which is a number so significant that I occasionally feel compelled to provide news to these “foreigners” who may not be aware of precisely how insane we Americas are from an environmental standpoint.

Here’s a little fact that may shock you folks in distant lands: One of our leading congressmen, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (pictured), is doing everything in his power to overturn our federal government’s limits on power plant pollution.

From our “Union of Concerned Scientists”:

First, (McConnell) told state officials to ignore the federal rules. Now he’s pushing a bill to let even the most polluting states “opt out” of the rules altogether.  And we have to stay alert, because if this bill does not succeed, you can be sure that he will try again and again to derail these rules.

We worked for years pushing the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to limit the amount of carbon pollution that power plants can spew into the air. These limits are going to be finalized this summer, and we’ve got to mount an immediate, all-out effort to protect them—working directly with members of Congress, while leveraging experts and activists like you to do on-the-ground work in key states.

There you have it.  News from the US of A, news that boggles the mind.