Another Blow For Freedumb - House Committee Blocks Regulating Coal Ash As HazMat

[hatrack]

WASHINGTON - In a win for the coal industry, a House committee approved a bill Tuesday that would prevent federal regulation of coal ash as hazardous waste.

The legislation would place coal ash in the same category as metal scrap, waste water and household garbage, and would allow states to voluntarily regulate it.

Rep. John Shimkus, the Illinois Republican who chairs the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on environmental issues, said states don't want federal interference.

"When it comes to oversight and protection from risks, there is no doubt it's the government's responsibility to check on these activities," he said. "The question becomes, who is the appropriate monitor."

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http://www.wbir.com/news/article/173724/2/House-panel-rejects-move-to-regulate-coal-ash-

[fascisthunter]

1. So he'd rather see people get poisoned and die...

[WhiteTara]

3. Yep. He has money to make. n/t

[lumpy]

2. Another ploy by Republicans to further states rights by

diverting all control/regulation from the Federal government. And so the possibility that we will discontinue to be the United States of America and go the way of the USSR.

[phantom power]

4. Strategery: Somebody ought to point out that it contains uranium, and is radioactive.

That seems to get people's attention.