Good News For Texas Children! (In Spite of Our Senators)

Senator Inhoje's attempt to block the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standard was defeated last week when 48 Democratic Senators and five Republican Senators voted down his Congressional Review Act resolution, S.J. Res 37.  The MATS will require coal-fired power plants to dramatically reduce their emissions of mercury and other toxins into the air, saving the lives of many children and elderly in the United States, as well as helping people who suffer from respiratory ailments like asthma.

Forty-one Republicans and five Democrats in the Senate voted to put corporate profit over public health, including our own.  Our Texas Senators voted to block protections for our children and let Big Coal do what it wants with the air we breathe.  Fortunately, they were in the minority.  

We need to get rid of them.  


In the next election - remember.