Friday, April 22, 2005

Energy Bill

Unsurprisingly passed the House. Unsurprisingly it rewards polluters and damages the environment and our health. One choice hypocricy:

The House also rejected an effort to retain state and local control over where to put terminals for importing liquefied natural gas. Representative Michael N. Castle, Republican of Delaware, said that giving the federal government final authority was "trampling on the rights of states and individual communities."

[the bill] gives a federal board new authority to force improvements in the power grid to avert blackouts.


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