Posts Tagged ‘environmental protection agency’
Bond Speaks Out Against Cap-and-Trade
October 24th, 2009 | 
Author: Senator Bond continues to fight against cap-and-trade legislation that threatens Missouri families and farmers with higher energy prices and job losses. The bill proposed by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) sets even stricter emissions targets than the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill. The Sena te bill also removes provisions that require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be fair to ethanol producers and to protect energy-intensive manufacturing jobs in the United States that are exposed to unfair competition in China, an unsettling fact as experts say that the Waxman-Markey bill alone will eliminate 2.4 million net U.S. jobs. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Energy, Government | 
Tags: barbara boxer, emissions, environmental protection agency, ethanol producers, john kerry, kit bond, missouri, senator | 
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