You can't have it both ways and say that the successes are the result of the states using their flexibility independent of federal standards and federal compulsion but the failures are a direct result of federal compulsion.
Holt critiques the contradictory arguments regarding state flexibility and federal standards.
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These bills are relics of a bygone area--as relevant as the telegraph or the horse and buggy.
For instance, despite being entitled the 'National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2013,' H.R. 761 has absolutely NOTHING to do with developing these minerals.
we are talking about a pipeline with the capacity to transport 830,000 barrels per day of tar sands product, one of the dirtiest energy sources on the planet.
Unfortunately, while these two bills will improve our understanding of critical and strategic minerals, other pieces of legislation that we are considering today represent nothing more than huge giveaways to the mining industry and…
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