By Paul Chesser on 7.21.09 @ 5:24PM
That's what an Arkansas state legislator accused some in Congress
of doing today in
testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee.
That's what an Arkansas state legislator accused some in Congress
of doing today in
testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee:
But Republican Gov. John Hoeven of North Dakota said the
legislation under consideration would cause job losses in his
oil-producing state. The prospect of a climate change bill
already has halted new technologies to harvest oil and natural
gas, Hoeven said.
He was joined by Arkansas state Rep. John Lowery, a
Democrat and the owner of Lowery Oil Co., who said that while
the bill may create green jobs for the West Coast and
Northeast, it would harm middle America.
"It might be popular for some in Washington to demonize oil
and gas, fertilizer and chemical companies, and farmers,"
Lowery said, "but where I come from, they are an integral part
of our communities."
Arkansas was
the site of perhaps the
greatest state-level blowback against cap-and-tax to date.
topics:
Global Warming, Cap and Trade
