Please oppose HR 910

Mar 10, 2011

March 10, 2011

Please Oppose HR 910 Which Prohibits EPA from Addressing Climate Change

Dear Representative:

I am writing to thank you for not supporting the Poe Amendment to HR 1, the year-long continuing resolution recently passed by the House of Representatives, that would deny EPA funds to address greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources. We deeply appreciate your opposition.

The House is currently considering HR 910, a draconian bill that would permanently prohibit EPA from addressing carbon pollution and climate change. We urge you to oppose that bill vigorously and to persuade your colleagues to neither co-sponsor nor vote for that bill. HR 910 is sweeping and deceptive:

• It amends the term “pollutant” in the Clean Air Act to exclude “greenhouse gases” defined more broadly than the Environmental Protection Agency does.

• It claims to preserve fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, but in fact undermines them.

• It prevents states from adopting California’s stricter mobile source standards.

• It claims to preserve state laws controlling greenhouse gas emissions, but infact voids provisions of state law in the State Implementation Plan and greenhouse gas limits in stationary source permits.

In a time of rapidly rising gasoline prices it would be foolhardy to destroy the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to require fuel efficient vehicles.

Sincerely,

Marcia J. Cleveland Legislative Representative

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