Vermont Governor To Mitch McConnell: Climate Change Is Real And We Should Deal With It

[cali]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has undertaken a personal campaign to get the governors of all 50 states to refuse to abide by the Environmental Protection Agency's new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Last week, McConnell wrote to the governors urging them not to move forward with state compliance plans under the EPA's Clean Power Plan, which seeks to cut emissions at the national level by 30 percent by 2030. "I believe you will find, as I have, that the EPA’s proposal goes far beyond its legal authority and that the courts are likely to strike it down," McConnell wrote.

On Wednesday, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) sent back a response: Nope.

He used a few more words than that, but that was the gist:

Dear Majority Leader McConnell,

I disagree. Climate change is real. It’s a threat to humanity. We should be working harder to address it, not rolling back efforts to do so. I fully support the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan.

Sincerely,

Peter Shumlin
Governor of Vermont

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/25/vermont-climate-mcconnell_n_6942018.html

[daleanime]

1. kick, kick, kick.....

We need to be moving faster on the EPA's plan.

[Martin Eden]

2. Turtle Man and other Repukes will be convinced that climate change is real ...

... when their corporate masters who finance their campaigns tell them.

[Dustlawyer]

3. Not my area of the law, but isn't it illegal to encourage, advise, conspire with others to break

the law?

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. One would think, right?

[joshdawg]

5. It is but, IOKIYAR.

[Dustlawyer]

10. Hate to show my ignorance, but I don't

know what IOKIYAR

[beam me up scottie]

11. It's okay if you're a republican

[HereSince1628]

6. the outcome will be judged by the winners of the insurrection, right?

I suspect McConnell doesn't think he'll have to answer to the beaten federal government.

Interesting that McConnell thinks the rebellion has spread to enough states that the attempted take down of federal authority it deemed reasonable and appropriate.

[Cryptoad]

7. But, But ,,,, But,,,,,

Obama says it real,,, and if he says its real , it has to be non-real ........!

[mountain grammy]

8. Top Republican lawmaker guilty of breaking the law

and encouraging others to do the same... said no headline ever!

[spanone]

9. the depths of america's ignorance is demonstrated by the assholes it elects.

ala mccconnell

[surrealAmerican]

12. Wouldn't it be great if ...

... McConnell got 49 more letters just like that? He won't, of coarse - there are too many governors who are pro-pollution.