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Arctic Attack In House Funding Bill

Many anti-environmental provisions dropped from must-pass bill

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2011. 

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed funding legislation which includes a harmful measure that moves clean air authority for Arctic offshore drilling from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the Department of Interior, but doesn’t include any previous threats that would have removed important environmental safeguards for pollution from boilers, cement plants, power plants and cross-state air pollution.

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The Arctic provision, Section 432,…

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