Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, is urging Colorado's U.S. Senators to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's "endangerment" finding that carbon dioxide -- the very substance human beings exhale -- is a danger to the public welfare.
"We're not talking about a knee jerk reaction to an oil spill in the Gulf," Lundberg said. "We're talking about the EPA taking authority they don't have and declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant, which is absurd."
A resolution to overturn the EPA findings is being offered by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, and is up for a vote this afternoon. Lundberg said he hopes that Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall will let Congress do its job and block what he sees as an unprecedented power grab by the EPA.
"The EPA has already positioned itself to regulate fuel economy, set climate policy and amend the Clean Air Act, powers never delegated to it by Congress," Lundberg said. "Enough is enough. We need to restore the constitutional separation of powers and put the EPA in its place."
Regulating greenhouse gases under the 1970 Clean Air Act has already proven to be disastrous for the economy and freedom of this country. "Congress needs to reign in the EPA," Lundberg said. "Their job is to enforce the law, not write it."