Climate change is of course very real, but in the United States our leaders are not remotely serious about it.
The latest comes from West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller, friend to the end of coal (and wealthy descendant of a fossil fuel robber baron).
He, and many other Congresspersons of both parties, want a moratorium on EPA regulation of greenhouse gases.
It’s being framed as a Congress v. Executive Branch fight over prerogatives, but, like health care and financial services “reform”, it’s actually just another attempt to avoid serious policymaking that might gore a few oxen, especially those oxen who thought their Congress was already bought and paid for.
Gorilla thinks: “Another lump of coal for the EPA’s stocking!”
