{"id":44246,"date":"2009-11-05T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instituteforenergyresearch.org\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2009-11-05T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:39:18","slug":"ier-special-interests-foreign-competitors-win-under-senate-global-warming-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/44246","title":{"rendered":"IER: Special Interests, Foreign Competitors Win Under Senate Global Warming Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>American families, U.S. competitiveness shortchanged by shortsighted proposal<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>\nWashington, DC \u2013 Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed a global warming bill. Following the panel\u2019s vote, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the non-partisan, pro-market Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued this statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The winners today are rent-seeking corporations, Washington special interests and our global competitors, especially China. The timing of this vote \u2013 which will weaken America\u2019s ability to compete in the global economy \u2013 is particularly ironic, given that just yesterday a U.S. global warming envoy official told Congress that \u2018No country holds the fate of the Earth in its hands more than China.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnacting burdensome policies \u2013 such as cap-and-trade \u2013 will drive energy prices up and make it more difficult to create jobs, wealth and prosperity here in the U.S. China\u2019s hand, however, will only grow stronger, as they continue to aggressively access and develop all forms of energy in their country and across the world. This, in large part, is what has enabled their enormous economic growth and expansion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the members of this committee who voted to advance this legislation may attempt to downplay their vote to increase energy costs for American families, seniors and small businesses as an inside-the-beltway procedural motion, the fact remains that job-killing, carbon regulating legislation has cleared a major hurtle and is a major step closer to becoming law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, please contact <a href=\"mailto:pcreighton@ierdc.org\">Patrick Creighton<\/a>, 202-621-2947, or <a href=\"mailto:lhenderson@ierdc.org\">Laura Henderson<\/a>, 202-621-2951.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#####<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American families, U.S. competitiveness shortchanged by shortsighted proposal Washington, DC \u2013 Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed a global warming bill. Following the panel\u2019s vote, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the non-partisan, pro-market Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued this statement: &#8220;The winners today are rent-seeking corporations, Washington special interests and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}