{"id":7157,"date":"2014-11-23T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2014-11-23T17:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T23:05:24","slug":"house-republicans-give-the-epa-to-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/house-republicans-give-the-epa-to-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans give the EPA to Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/500469\/news\/500469.html\">How your congressional delegates voted | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>EPA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD:<\/b> Voting 229 for and 191 against, the House on Nov. 18 passed a Republican bill (HR 1422) to <strong>reshape the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Science Advisory Board to make it more industry-friendly<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>The board provides independent evaluations of the scientific analyses upon which the EPA bases its regulations. Its 52 members are chosen by the EPA administrator and serve without pay.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>This bill would diminish academic representation on the board while expanding corporate membership;<\/strong> permit experts with financial ties to EPA-regulated industries to serve if they disclose their conflicts of interest; give state, local and tribal governments a guaranteed number of seats on the board; and require the board to gather more public comments, among other provisions.  <\/p>\n<p>A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate, where it is expected to die.  <\/p>\n<p><b>YES:<\/b> PEARCE (Republican, oil millionaire); <b>NO:<\/b> LUJAN GRISHAM, LUJ\u00c3\u0081N (Democrats)  <\/p>\n<p><b>CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: <\/b>Voting 195 for and 225 against, the House on Nov. 18 refused to amend HR 1422 (above) in a way that <strong>would to deny membership on the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Science Advisory Board to representatives of companies or trade associations having a financial interest in decisions that result from the board\u2019s recommendations.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>A yes vote was to adopt the Democratic motion.  <\/p>\n<p><b>YES:<\/b> LUJAN GRISHAM, LUJ\u00c3\u0081N (Democrats) <b>NO:<\/b> PEARCE (Republican, oil millionaire)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/500469\/news\/500469.html\">How your congressional delegates voted | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How your congressional delegates voted | Albuquerque Journal News EPA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD: Voting 229 for and 191 against, the House on Nov. 18 passed a Republican bill (HR 1422) to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Science Advisory Board to make it more industry-friendly. The board provides independent evaluations of the scientific analyses upon which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/house-republicans-give-the-epa-to-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House Republicans give the EPA to Industry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7158,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions\/7158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}