So here we are with a whole new batch of climate change deniers coming to Washington DC early next year. Tired that the US is no longer number one in pollution and seeing China's problem as a threat to US supremacy and the idiots way of life; they mean to assure that this is only temporary.
But there was a decisive power shift in Congress towards those who deny the existence of manmade climate change or who oppose government action on global warming. An investigation by Think Progress, a website run by the liberal Centre for American Progress think tank, found 50% of the more than 100 Republican newcomers deny the existence of man-made climate change. An overwhelming majority, 86%, oppose legislation that would raise taxes on polluting industries. That could spell the end for progressive energy legislation and could herald a return to the George Bush era of environmental deregulation.
The one bright spot is California, but the GOP and the corporations may decide that life is so much 'better' in the increasingly deregulated 'heartland'.
continued at Daily Kos....
