[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3738]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               DIRTY AIR

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Tennessee (Mr. Cohen) for 1 minute.
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to Chairman Upton's 
dirty air act.
  In 2007, the Supreme Court issued the Massachusetts v. EPA decision, 
directing the EPA to examine greenhouse gas emissions and their impact 
on the public health. EPA conducted a highly credible, peer-reviewed 
scientific analysis under the Bush EPA and the Obama EPA, both 
concluding that greenhouse gases harm our health.
  This was not a political analysis; it was a scientific analysis. But 
that has not stopped the chairman from trying to legislatively 
undermine scientific fact. According to the EPA, President Nixon's 
Clean Air Act will prevent 230,000 premature deaths and result in $2 
trillion in economic benefits in 2020.
  But, Chairman Upton has decided, with much help from corporate 
polluters' lobbyists, that the fiscal and physical well-being of the 
American people are less important than Big Oil's importance and Big 
Oil's billion dollar bottom line next quarter.
  The bottom line for America is that undermining EPA science will cost 
trillions.

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