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Bill Number: 

H.R. 2273

Status: 

Active

Latest Action: 

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 267 - 144 (Roll no. 800). Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 202

Date Introduced: 

Wed, 06/22/2011

Sponsor: 

Rep. David McKinley (WV-1)

Committee(s) of Jurisdiction: 

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Implementing Agency: 

Environmental Protection Agency

Region/State: 

National

Issue(s): 

Dirty Water Bill

Issue(s): 

Oil, Mining and Gas

Issue(s): 

Impaired Waters (TMDL)

Issue(s): 

Pollutants (toxins, pharmaceuticals, etc.)

Downloads: 

McKinley Bill Fact Sheet HR 2273.pdf

Downloads: 

Vote NO H R 2273 Letter.pdf

Congressman David McKinley (R-WV) has introduced a dangerously weak bill for “regulating” coal ash disposal that would defy logic by allowing States to continue operating every leak-prone and high hazard toxic coal ash dump without requiring basic safeguards and virtually blocking EPA from stepping in to protect communities. 

Passage of this bill would endanger the health and safety of thousands of communities, fail to stimulate coal ash recycling, and disrupt the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) public rulemaking process that has been underway for over two years and has attracted a record 455,000 comments.