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<p>Republicans in the US have wasted no time in trying to block the Obama administration from acting to stem global warming.</p>
<p>On Thursday, their second day in power, Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced several bills that would hamstring the Environmental Protection Agency from moving forward with regulations to reduce heat-trapping pollution from factories and other sources that they say contributes to global warming. </p>
<p>The bills are part of an effort by Republicans to reverse what they consider job-killing policies of the administration. The bills, introduced by Republicans Ted Poe, Marsha Blackburn and Shelley Moore Capito, would stymie the EPA in different ways.</p>
<p>Poe&#8217;s measure would prohibit the EPA from using any money to implement or enforce regulations to impose a limit on global warming gases. Blackburn&#8217;s bill would change the Clean Air Act so the EPA could no longer use the law to control greenhouse gases.</p>
<p>A 2007 Supreme Court decision said the EPA had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming gases under the statute.</p>
<p>Capito&#8217;s measure would delay for two years any effort by the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act.</p>
<p>In a statement, Capito called the EPA&#8217;s actions a power grab that would have devastating effects on the US economy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Without congressional action to say otherwise, the EPA will continue to dismantle energy and manufacturing industries through regulation,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a top Democrat in the Senate on environmental issues, Barbara Boxer, said she would use every tool to block the Republicans&#8217; efforts and ensure that the EPA was allowed to follow the law.</p>
<p>A bill that would have placed a limit on heat-trapping gases died in the Senate last year, after it passed the then Democratic-led House. Boxer said there were no plans to pursue another one because there are not enough votes.</p>
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