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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt Least Four States Are Pushing Koch-Backed Legislation To Ban Funding EPA’s Climate Rule
On Thursday, Missouri state lawmaker Tim Remole introduced a resolution mimicking the text of AFPs Reliable, Affordable and Safe Power (RASP) Act. Remoles resolution seeks to prohibit state agencies from using state money to implement EPA rules and guidelines, specifically the EPAs efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
Nearly identical resolutions have also been introduced in Florida, Virginia, and South Carolina in 2015. Each one says the proposed limits on carbon emissions from power plants will not measurably alter any impacts of climate change, conflicts with a literal reading of the law, and would effectively amount to a federal takeover of the electricity system of the United States.
The sentiment in these resolutions would have to be included in actual bills to become a real law. But if they do pass, it would signify that the states have the momentum to move similarly-written bills through their Legislatures.
The RASP Act is a piece of model legislation written by AFP, a free-market group famously backed by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. AFP announced in December that it would lead a large coalition of organizations to push the RASP Act in states organizations which include the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, right-wing think tank Heritage Action for America, and the Koch-backed American Energy Alliance. The model legislation is also being pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a free-market lobbying group.
Nearly identical resolutions have also been introduced in Florida, Virginia, and South Carolina in 2015. Each one says the proposed limits on carbon emissions from power plants will not measurably alter any impacts of climate change, conflicts with a literal reading of the law, and would effectively amount to a federal takeover of the electricity system of the United States.
The sentiment in these resolutions would have to be included in actual bills to become a real law. But if they do pass, it would signify that the states have the momentum to move similarly-written bills through their Legislatures.
The RASP Act is a piece of model legislation written by AFP, a free-market group famously backed by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. AFP announced in December that it would lead a large coalition of organizations to push the RASP Act in states organizations which include the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, right-wing think tank Heritage Action for America, and the Koch-backed American Energy Alliance. The model legislation is also being pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a free-market lobbying group.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/13/3633452/state-resolutions-ban-epa-climate-rule/
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At Least Four States Are Pushing Koch-Backed Legislation To Ban Funding EPA’s Climate Rule (Original Post)
Triana
Mar 2015
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HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)1. Spring offensive in the Koch's libertine putsch...
No point in pretending and referring to it as pushing anything.
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)2. kr. I believe koch minions are here at DU, btw.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)3. Insanity but the next hurricane might cure that
Once the town and beach front mansions go underwater permanently.