应对全球气候变化(2/2)
概述：联合国有关气候变化的大会在华沙举行。各界人士在环保局听证会上发表意见。Hints:
Mitch McConnell
EPA
Kentucky
Brian Patton
James River Coal Service
David Doniger
Natural Resources Defense Council
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组长：marrywhy
答疑：silvanus_ss
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本期材料发音模仿地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/11885/item/850311/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201311/201311270911455048636.mp3Mitch McConnell is the leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate. He spoke at the EPA hearing in support of his home state of Kentucky, which is a major coal producer.
Brian Patton also spoke at the EPA hearing. Mr. Patton comes from a long line of Kentucky coal mine workers. Today he is president of the James River Coal Service. His company has dismissed 725 workers over the past six months. He fears that new rules could bring even greater hardship to an area that is already economically depressed.
David Doniger is a climate policy expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the nation's largest environmental groups. He says it is the duty of the EPA to control carbon as a pollutant. He wants the agency to establish new rules that would move the United States toward a cleaner energy environment.
He says the government is responsible for protecting clean air, not protecting old and dirty power stations.
The EPA is now considering comments from the nationwide hearings. The agency plans to announce proposed rule changes in June.明奇·麦康奈尔是美国参议院共和党领袖。他在环保局听证会上发表讲话，力挺自己的家乡肯塔基州。肯塔基是一个重要的煤矿产地。
布莱恩·巴顿也在听证会上发表了演说。他来自肯塔基州的一个煤矿工人世家，现任杰姆斯河煤炭公司总裁。他的公司在过去的六个月中已经解雇了725名工人。他担心新法规会使经济效益日益萧条的煤矿业雪上加霜。
大卫·多尼格是美国自然资源保护委员会的气候政策专家，该委员会是美国最大的环保团体之一。他认为环保局的职责就是控制碳排放污染。他希望该机构制定出新法规，使美国迈向拥有更清洁能源的环境中。
他表示政府有责任保护洁净空气（不受污染），废弃那些又旧又脏的发电站。
环保局正在考虑来自全国范围听证会的种种意见，计划于6月份宣布新的法规议案。
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