HOUSE PASSES "TRAIN WRECK" BILL

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TRAIN Act or Train Wreck:
House Passes Bill Blocking Clean Air Act

WASHINGTON, DC, September 23, 2011 - The House Republicans are calling it the TRAIN Act, but environmentalists are calling it a "train wreck."

Today the House passed the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation (TRAIN) Act of 2011 (H.R. 2401), which would dismantle core elements of the Clean Air Act.

The measure would block health safeguards already issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and prevent imminent mercury standards from being adopted.

The law would impose a mandatory minimum delay of between 15 and 19 months and eliminate any statutory deadlines for EPA to reissue those standards in the future.

The Obama Administration has said the President is likely to veto the bill if it reaches his desk...

Now the bill goes to the Democrat-led Senate.

Earlier this week, Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, held a press conference with public health experts and a family affected by asthma to stress the importance of defending the Clean Air Act from attacks, such as the TRAIN Act.

Senator Boxer said, "Today our landmark Clean Air Act, which has protected the air we breathe for decades is under fierce attack by House Republicans. We have faced this attack once already since the Republicans took over the House. We prevailed then, and we must prevail now."

If approved by the Senate, the measure would go to President Barack Obama for his signature and there faces a veto threat.

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