Lobbying Against Global Warming
"Lobbyists ask for delay on emissions bill"
After reading the article in the Baltimore Sun, it brought me back to the recent in-class discussion regarding the ethical ramifications of lobbyists delaying legislation in the Ford Pinto case. Lives were lost in the time period in which Capitol Hill was delayed by lobbyists from moving forward on legislation to take the car off the road. Washington knew about the Ford Pinto and the deaths resulting from the exploding gas tanks in rear-end explosions, but lobbyists that were paid by the profiting Ford Motor Company slowed the process. In this article, lives are not directly or immediately impacted as in the Ford Pinto case, but it comes down to an issue of Maryland as a state trying to clean up its air quality with a ‘clean air bill' and the lobbyists hired to slow them from gaining legislation to do so.
Here in Maryland, the temperatures this winter have been seasonably warm and the issue of global......
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