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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><h1 class="headline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Enzi won't run again, makes opening for Cheney</font></h1><section class="homepage byline" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: block !important;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="authors" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By<span> </span><a href="https://www.eenews.net/staff/Geof_Koss" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">Geof Koss</a><span> </span>in<span> </span><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eed" class="publication eed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold;">E&E Daily</a></span><span> </span><time datetime="2019-05-06 06:45:44 -0400" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; white-space: nowrap;">6:45 AM EDT</time></font></p></section><p><a href="https://www.eenews.net/eedaily/stories/1060282007" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></a></p><section class="excerpt" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Four-term Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) announced he will retire instead of seeking reelection, creating an opening for Rep. Liz Cheney (R) to pursue a rare open Senate seat in the sparsely populated state.</font></p></section><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.ecowatch.com/koch-brothers-paris-agreement-2430226599.html</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paris Exit Was 'Victory Paid and Carried Out' by Republican Party for the Koch Brothers</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 22 Republican senators who sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week urging the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement received more than $10 million dollars in campaign funds from fossil fuel interests.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two-page letter was signed by a number of Republican heavyweights from coal/gas/oil-rich states, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Ted Cruz of Texas.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Guardian calculated that the 22 senators received a total of $10,694,284 from oil, gas and coal money in just five years. (See the breakdown below.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, that sum does not even come close to the amount of undisclosed funds coming from the deep pockets of Charles and David Koch's coal, oil and gas conglomerate, Koch Industries, and other outside groups.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Guardian explains:</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Visible donations to Republicans from those industries exceeded donations to Democrats in the 2016 election cycle by a ratio of 15-to-1, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And that does not include so-called dark money passed from oil interests such as Koch industries to general slush funds to re-elect Republicans such as the Senate leadership fund.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"At least $90m in untraceable money has been funneled to Republican candidates from oil, gas and coal interests in the past three election cycles, according to Federal Election Commission disclosures analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, shared recently his views on Trump's climate walkout.In an interview with Bloomberg Surveillance, Sachs referenced the senators' letter and specifically cast blame on the billionaire oil barons for pulling the strings of Republican party leaders such as McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who both supported exiting the Paris accord.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is the victory paid and carried out for 20 years by two people, David and Charles Koch," Sachs said. "They have bought and purchased the top of the Republican party. Trump is a tool in this."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notably, most of the Republican signatories of the letter do not support the belief that human activity contributes to climate change.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During an appearance on MSNBC, Democratic Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts explained why he thinks his Republican colleagues do not believe in the science of climate change.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This Conservative party in the United States is funded by the Koch brothers [and] it's funded by the coal industry," Markey said. "[They] insist that Scott Pruitt—the Attorney General of Oklahoma that actually sued the EPA 19 times on clean air, clean water, soot, mercury issues—becomes the head of the EPA in our country."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 22 Republican signatories' funding from Big Oil, Gas and Coal in the past three election cycles (2012, 2014 and 2016):</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Inhofe, Oklahoma</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $465,950 + Coal: $63,600 = $529,550</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Barrasso, Wyoming</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $458,466 + Coal: $127,356 = $585,822</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitch McConnell, Kentucky</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $1,180,384 + Coal: $361,700 = $1,542,084</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cornyn, Texas</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $1,101,456 + Coal: $33,050 = $1,134,506</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roy Blunt, Missouri</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $353,864 + Coal: $96,000 = $449,864</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Wicker, Mississippi</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $198,816 + Coal: $25,376 = $224,192</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Michael Enzi, Wyoming</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Oil & gas: $211,083 + Coal: $63,300 = $274,383</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Crapo, Idaho</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $110,250 + Coal: $26,756 = $137,006</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Risch, Idaho</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $123,850 + Coal: $25,680 = $149,530</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thad Cochran, Mississippi</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $276,905 + Coal: $15,000 = $291,905</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Rounds, South Dakota</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $201,900 + Coal: none = $201,900</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rand Paul, Kentucky</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $170,215 + Coal: $82,571 = $252,786</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Boozman, Arkansas</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $147,930 + Coal: $2,000 = $149,930</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Shelby, Alabama</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $60,150 + $2,500 = $62,650</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luther Strange, Alabama (Appointed in 2017, running in 2017 special election)</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total: NA</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Orrin Hatch, Utah</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $446,250 + Coal: $25,000 = $471,250</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Lee, Utah</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $231,520 + Coal: $21,895 = $253,415</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Cruz, Texas</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $2,465,910 + Coal: $103,900 = $2,569,810</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Perdue, Georgia</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $184,250 + Coal: $0 = $184,250</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thom Tillis, North Carolina</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $263,400 + Coal: $0 = $263,400</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim Scott, South Carolina</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $490,076 + Coal: $58,200 = $548,276</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Cynthia Lummis</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(R-WY-AL): The most frustrating aspect of the cap-and-trade proposals being discussed in Washington, however, is the fact that all of the economic sacrifices outlined above will be made for the sake of negligible to no actual environmental benefit. . . . There is no disputing that our planet experiences climate change – it has been cycling between cooling and warming periods long before we were here to experience the effects. I believe the jury is still out on whether mankind can alter global climate trends. [<a href="https://lummis.house.gov/news/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=170847" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">source</a>]</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="wysenbarrasso" name="wysenbarrasso" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;"> </a><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. John Barrasso</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(R-WY): This is a smoking gun, saying that the EPA findings were political and not scientific. [<a href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=35f512f9-802a-23ad-48e1-f38470333141" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">source</a>]</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a id="wysenenzi" name="wysenenzi" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;"> </a><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. Mike Enzi</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(R-WY): How willing are you to pay the personal cost of global warming legislation – even if it probably won’t make a difference? [<a href="http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_965c41d5-d1f3-5e4f-8327-f9b70efdb45e.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">source</a>]</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regardless of where one stands on the issue of global climate change, it makes sense to enact sensible energy and environmental policies. We need to continue to produce the energy that powers our homes, businesses and daily lives while we work toward more efficient energy sources.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The best way to address carbon emissions and other pollution is to develop innovative new technology that will have a real impact on our domestic energy use and production. Using new technology will help make traditional energy sources cleaner while we work to transition to alternative and renewable energy sources like wind, solar and nuclear power. This also allows us to move toward more efficient energy production without imposing policies that would create severe economic damage.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By working to develop new technology to address pollution, we can make it a truly global effort to produce energy more efficiently. India and China are two of the largest polluters in the world and their emissions are growing every day. Since they have not yet agreed to any cuts in their industrial emissions, sharing technology to make their energy use cleaner will have a real impact on cutting emissions globally. The United States’ efforts alone cannot solve global pollution issues.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A cap-and-trade system might better be called a cap-and-tax system. Placing a cap on carbon emissions will make energy more expensive and the increased costs will not be paid by energy producers. Rather, those costs will be passed on to energy consumers who could see dramatic increases in their energy bills. </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ultimately, Congress sets our energy and environmental policies. The EPA should implement policies that reflect what Congress has passed and not to move forward with an agenda that favors one form of energy over another or would  <strike style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: line-through;">to</strike><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>increase energy prices. Ensuring<strike style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: line-through;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strike>that the people of Wyoming and this country aren’t burdened by overly stringent radical rules and regulations that prevent business development and economic growth continues to be my focus as Congress considers policy regarding energy and the environment.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Senate considers the issue of climate change, I will work to promote more efficient energy production that allows our country to move toward better energy production without causing economic harm.</font>

<b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Burr Introduces Bill To Abolish The EPA</font></b>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted by Brad Johnson on Friday,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>May 06, 2011</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency. The bill, introduced by<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), would merge the EPA, which enforces environmental laws, with the Department of Energy, which manages nuclear energy and energy research, into one department.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January, Newt Gingrich proposed abolishing the EPA, and several House Republicans have supported that goal. Burr’s statement announcing his bill to eliminate the EPA argues that “duplicative functions” can be eliminated:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) introduced a bill that would consolidate the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency into a single, new agency called the Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE). The bill would provide cost savings by combining duplicative functions while improving the administration of energy and environmental policies by ensuring a coordinated approach.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burr’s bill has<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fifteen co-sponsors, all of them deniers of the threat of global warming pollution, a top EPA priority: Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), John Thune (R-S.D.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Thad Cochran (R-Miss.),<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kay Bailey Hutchison</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(R-Texas), David Vitter (R-La.), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), Mike Lee (R-Utah)</b></font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One example of a Washington DC powerhouse with a substantial financial interest in CCA is Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi, one of a small group of investors in Pershing Square, a hedge fund that holds the most stock in CCA of any of the company’s shareholders. Senator Enzi, a senior Republican who sits on the Senate Budget Committee, was awarded a 100% approval rating by U.S. Border Control (USBC), which describes itself as “a non-profit, tax-exempt, citizen’s lobby. USBC is dedicated to ending illegal immigration by securing our nation’s borders and reforming our immigration policies.”</font>

<h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.hillheat.com/articles/2011/05/06/richard-burr-introduces-bill-to-abolish-the-epa"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Richard Burr Introduces Bill To Abolish The EPA</font></a></h2>

<p class="author"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted by <cite>Brad Johnson</cite> <abbr class="published" title="2011-05-06T15:46:00-04:00"><span class="typo_date" title="Fri, 06 May 2011 19:46:00 GMT">on Friday, May 06, 2011</span></abbr></font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency. The bill, introduced by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), would merge the <span class="caps">EPA</span>, which enforces environmental laws, with the Department of Energy, which manages nuclear energy and energy research, into one department.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

In January, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/25/newt-epa-abolish/">Newt Gingrich</a> proposed abolishing the <span class="caps">EPA</span>, and several <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/17/gop-abolish-epa/">House Republicans</a> have supported that goal. Burr’s statement announcing his <a href="http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=c1ba1805-d36e-05b2-1312-7c07e24fa340">bill to eliminate the <span class="caps">EPA</span></a> argues that “duplicative functions” can be eliminated:

</font><blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) introduced a bill that would <strong>consolidate the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency into a single, new agency called the Department of Energy and Environment</strong> (DOEE). The bill would provide cost savings by combining duplicative functions while improving the administration of energy and environmental policies by ensuring a coordinated approach.</font></blockquote>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burr’s bill has fifteen co-sponsors, all of them <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/climate-zombie-caucus/">deniers</a> of the threat of global warming pollution, a top <span class="caps">EPA</span> priority: Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), John Thune (R-S.D.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), David Vitter (R-La.), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), Mike Lee (R-Utah).</font></p>

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