Peter Welch plugs away in the (crazy) House. Yesterday he took to the floor denouncing another goofily-titled GOP bill, the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 (H.R. 910), which would prohibit the EPA from considering greenhouse gasses as pollutants and exempt them from regulation. There is no stopping bills like this in the House these days (they should get stopped in the Senate or at the President’s desk), but it’s still critical that Welch and his allies make a lot of noise, rather than roll over for the House of Tea Party Representatives.

Welch: “The authors of this bill have come to the conclusion that global warming is a hoax. Give them credit, getting there was not an easy task and flies in the face of the unanimous conclusion of American scientists. Supporters of this legislation are following the long-established tradition we humans have, the ability to disregard the obvious and proven when that conflicts with our ideology.”