When the 112th Congress convened in January some of the first bills out of the box were specifically targeted at EPA and some of the specific clean air safeguards that the agency is scheduled to announce later this year – commonsense reductions of carbon pollution, mercury and other toxic air pollution. This week, Chairman Upton introduced a bill to undercut the EPA’s ability to do its job, after slashing the EPA’s budget last week – all the while keeping billions of dollars in tax breaks and loopholes for the biggest oil companies.