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President Obama has also stated his opposition to Prop. 23, noting that "oil companies and the other special interests are spending millions on a campaign to gut clean-air standards and clean-energy standards, jeopardizing the health and prosperity of this state."

Gene Karpinski: Defeat Proposition 23 Gene Karpinski 2010

President Obama has also stated his opposition to Prop. 23, noting that "oil companies and the other special interests are spending millions on a campaign to gut clean-air standards and clean-energy standards, jeopardizing the health and prosperity of this state."

Gene Karpinski: Defeat Proposition 23 Gene Karpinski 2010

But he said it was not the panel's mandate to recommend specific regulations, in part because the Environmental Protection Agency, not the Energy Department, is the primary regulator for clean-air and water standards.

Panel Calls for More 'Fracking' Rules Deborah Solomon 2011

President Obama has also stated his opposition to Prop. 23, noting that "oil companies and the other special interests are spending millions on a campaign to gut clean-air standards and clean-energy standards, jeopardizing the health and prosperity of this state."

Gene Karpinski: Defeat Proposition 23 Gene Karpinski 2010

Thursday's proposals stem from a lawsuit filed by a pair of environmental groups who successfully sued the agency to update clean-air standards for the oil and natural-gas industry.

EPA Unveils Air-Quality Rules for Natural-Gas Fracking Deborah Solomon 2011

"The clean-air laws have historically been self-enforcing," said Russ Sciandra , the New York state director for advocacy of the American Cancer Society, which supported the bill to extend the existing smoking ban for transit facilities to include outdoor station areas.

Smoking Ban Makes Riders the Enforcers Ted Mann 2012

This particular bill may not make it through Congress, but it reflects the anti-regulatory mentality on the Hill by offering a convenient tool for undermining the Environmental Protection Agency EPA -- that clean-air promoting, worker-protecting, “job killing organization of America,” which presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has promised shutter once and for all if elected.

Michelle Chen: In Anti-Government Poltiics, "Time-Out" on Regulation Versus Shortened Lives Michelle Chen 2011

This particular bill may not make it through Congress, but it reflects the anti-regulatory mentality on the Hill by offering a convenient tool for undermining the Environmental Protection Agency EPA -- that clean-air promoting, worker-protecting, “job killing organization of America,” which presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has promised shutter once and for all if elected.

Michelle Chen: In Anti-Government Poltiics, "Time-Out" on Regulation Versus Shortened Lives Michelle Chen 2011

Unshackled by Boehner's commitment to a freewheeling process, the freshmen dominated the floor Friday and Saturday morning in passing amendments that moved the legislation further to the right, limiting the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to enforce clean-air standards and defunding the Consumer Product Safety Commission's ability to create a database of injuries.

Morning Bits 2011

In March 2009, the government sued BP for allegedly breaking federal clean-air and clean-water laws during the oil spills.

BP Will Pay Fine in Spills Cassandra Sweet 2011