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Posted Sun Feb 27 2011: from Topeka Capital-Journal:
House seeks to choke EPA regs http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1298824310
Nearly every member of the Kansas House is convinced air-quality regulators at the federal Environmental Protection Agency are spewing toxic rules. Rep. Forrest Knox, R-Altoona, took the lead on pushing through a resolution declaring convergence of EPA carbon-limiting edicts, tied to anxiety about greenhouse gases and global warming, should be likened to a runaway railroad engine screaming down the tracks toward certain disaster... 116 members of the House voted for a resolution urging Congress to prohibit EPA by any means necessary -- such as stripping funding from the federal agency -- to block regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Kansans have a proud history of undermining their own existence.
Have you read Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter with Kansas?" Good read!

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