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The American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act is a Frankenstein's monster of bad energy policy. (Photo: Fr. Dougal McGuire/Creative Commons)
In preparation for Election Day--or maybe Halloween?--the House leadership has assembled a Frankenstein's monster of bad energy policy. Pieced together from the remains of 13 separate bills already passed by the House, but justifiably ignored in the Senate, these zombies are being raised from the dead for one final piece of political theatre before the election.
In preparation for Election Day--or maybe Halloween?--the House leadership has assembled a Frankenstein's monster of bad energy policy. Pieced together from the remains of 13 separate bills already passed by the House, but justifiably ignored in the Senate, these zombies are being raised from the dead for one final piece of political theatre before the election.
As Lindsay Abrams at Salon points out, the choice to revive a bundle of hyper-partisan bills just weeks before an election amounts to legislative trolling on an epic scale. For Americans who don't take kindly to Congressional trolling and who oppose climate disruption, unregulated drilling and an extra layer of coal dust in their lungs, Friends of the Earth offers a guide to these walking dead policy measures.
Here are the five worst things the Frankenstein act, officially called the American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act, would do:
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In preparation for Election Day--or maybe Halloween?--the House leadership has assembled a Frankenstein's monster of bad energy policy. Pieced together from the remains of 13 separate bills already passed by the House, but justifiably ignored in the Senate, these zombies are being raised from the dead for one final piece of political theatre before the election.
As Lindsay Abrams at Salon points out, the choice to revive a bundle of hyper-partisan bills just weeks before an election amounts to legislative trolling on an epic scale. For Americans who don't take kindly to Congressional trolling and who oppose climate disruption, unregulated drilling and an extra layer of coal dust in their lungs, Friends of the Earth offers a guide to these walking dead policy measures.
Here are the five worst things the Frankenstein act, officially called the American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act, would do:
In preparation for Election Day--or maybe Halloween?--the House leadership has assembled a Frankenstein's monster of bad energy policy. Pieced together from the remains of 13 separate bills already passed by the House, but justifiably ignored in the Senate, these zombies are being raised from the dead for one final piece of political theatre before the election.
As Lindsay Abrams at Salon points out, the choice to revive a bundle of hyper-partisan bills just weeks before an election amounts to legislative trolling on an epic scale. For Americans who don't take kindly to Congressional trolling and who oppose climate disruption, unregulated drilling and an extra layer of coal dust in their lungs, Friends of the Earth offers a guide to these walking dead policy measures.
Here are the five worst things the Frankenstein act, officially called the American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act, would do: