
<br />Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R- Alaska) has sponsored S.J.Res. 26, a "resolution of disapproval," that will forbid the EPA from imposing its onerous bureaucratic CO2 regulations. It already has 41 senators as co-sponsors and needs just 51 votes to pass.<br /><br />The vote on this bill is scheduled for Thursday in the full Senate, so your senators must hear from you today! Tell them to vote "Yes" on S.J.Res 26.<br /><br />The EPA's policy, if not stopped by S.J.Res. 26, will do the following:</p>
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<li>Give the EPA regulatory authority over every vehicle in America. </li>
<li>Give the EPA regulatory control over millions of "stationary sources" of CO2, including power plants, factories, farms, offices and apartment buildings, hospitals, schools and churches. (Yes, churches!) The cost of applying for a permit (to emit plant food!) could run as high as $100,000. </li>
<li>Cause, as President Obama promised, the cost of electricity for American families to "necessarily skyrocket." </li>
<li>Hit the poor the hardest. Households with annual incomes of less than $50,000 already have an energy cost burden of 19% of their income. (The average household energy cost burden is between 5% and 10%.) Two-thirds of black families and 60% of Hispanic families make less than $50,000 per year. As Dr. E. Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation says, "Since the poor will be hurt more than others by rising energy costs, the astronomical increases that would follow...amount to a regressive tax -- hurting most of all the people who can least afford it." </li>
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