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Exposed: Warming Up to Climate Change As the U.S. suffers
through catastrophic tornadoes, heat waves, and other climate
extremes -- no doubt just a small taste of what the climate
crisis will bring in the future -- polluting industries and the
politicians that serve them want to convince you that excess
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is actually a good thing. Last
December, almost like clockwork, Republican legislators in state
houses across the nation sounded the alarm about an "out of
control" Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). What had the EPA
suddenly done to earn such criticism? The EPA had dared to take
the first baby steps towards regulating greenhouse gas
emissions. By January 2011, Indiana became the first state to
pass a resolution urging Congress to prohibit the EPA from
regulating greenhouse gas emissions (by defunding the EPA if
necessary), to impose a two year moratorium on any new air
quality regulations, and urging the federal gov