Bush At War With Environment - Richard Nixon's EPA Head
BackBush has declared war on the environment - says Richard Nixon's former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Russel Train. "We're at war in Iraq. They tell us we're at war against terrorism. I'd say that George W. Bush has declared war on the environment. And I think that people ought to stand up and be counted in opposition to that. The first National Park, Yellowstone, was created in 1872. Now that was a Republican year, right after the Civil War. General Grant, then the president, was the person you have to give credit to for Yellowstone. You can go back to Teddy Roosevelt and say he Roosevelt was a great conservationist. He created our National Forest and our national wildlife refuges and he took a strong interest in conservation. You get to Richard Nixon and you get a fantastic blooming of environmental interest and initiatives on the part of the administration. The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, was a creature of Richard Nixon. The Clean Air Act of 1972, the Clean Air Act of 1970, ocean dumping controls, clean drinking water, the Noise Control Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, you name it. So, during the Nixon administration and the Ford administration we accomplished a great deal. I was never officially part of the administration of George H.W. Bush -- Bush the First. We were good personal friends and our families were friends. He asked me for advice on the environment; he asked me to explain the environment to him, although that wasn't exactly an easy thing to do in a short while, but we sat down and talked in Florida for an hour or so. He really wanted to know. He entered the presidency with the intention of being a good environmental president. He sponsored the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, and that's the law under which we live today. He had a very good environmental record, and his heart was very much in the right place on the issue. I feel George W.'s heart is in the wrong place on this issue. Calling something the Clean Air Act, the Healthy Forest Act when what you're really doing is opening up the forest to logging. It's almost an ideological antagonism. And there's no understanding, I feel, of the importance of this issue. It's addressed from the standpoint of, "What is such-and-such a regulation going to do to a particular industry that is a pretty good contributor to our campaign cause. And I think that's what's motivated its approach to environmental matters. There has been a tendency on the part of this administration, this White House, to -- some call it -- distort science. And if they don't like the science, they take out that particular finding. As I understand it, the EPA did do a study -- at least a preliminary study, in New York, which showed some very troublesome, hazardous air pollutant problems. And they were told by -- I don't know whether the White House or the Council on Environmental Quality -- to change those results. I think this administration is not a conservative administration. I think it's a radical administration. It represents a radical rollback of environmental policy going back to a period many, many years ago. It's backward." USA Today - Courts mow down development strategy http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-10-federal-lands_x.htm Court rulings on environment go against Bush administration http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20070415/NEWS/70415005 Learn more about the Bush administrations evironmental record. http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/2005.asp Earthjustice: Environmental Law http://www.earthjustice.org/news/index.jsp?page=1 Greg Palast Journalism and Film http://www.gregpalast.com/ The Junk Science of George W. Bush http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040308/kennedy Bad Science and the Bush Record http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/science/default.asp Go/Left TV http://www.goleft.tv/ Go/Left TV Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of GoLeft.tv and Air America's Ring of Fire gives a speech at the 2007 Live Earth concert in New Jersey. http://goleft.tv/view.asp?v=260 Go/Left TV: Mainstream Media is Dead Mike Papantonio talks about how Mainstream Media is dead, but there is a new rise of the "citizens' media". http://goleft.tv/view.asp?v=36 theREALnews network http://therealnews.com/web/index.php
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doublek9000 (Monday 14th of July 2008 12:25:37 PM)
Yes but you want all of us to change our ways of life so drastically that it makes it worth it to see if global warning is actually a real phenomenon...there are many scientists who say that it is myth simply because climate change has happened long before the 100 years or so that environmentalists say the internal combustion engine has "ruined" the ozone layer...remember the ice age about 11,000 years ago? I dont think we had any ford explorers rolling around then to blame the weather on
JerezJulio (Tuesday 15th of July 2008 08:17:00 AM)
The scientist who say global is caused by human activity, are measuring the data.
The scientist who denied it, are stating an opinion motivated by their ideology.
Basically these are people that follow the Milton Friedman theory that market force self regulate. Most these scientist are people paid by the oil industry to arrive to favorable conclusion to oil drilling.
Very much the same way Tabbaco Companies paid doctors to say smoking was not addicted and did not cause of lung cancel.
JerezJulio (Tuesday 15th of July 2008 08:25:55 AM)
doublek9000-
I guess you are the kind of person that if your doctor tell you "hey you have to quick smoking because it will hive you lung cancel", you reply "doctor do I am no going to change my way o life because people have died of lung cancel since the history of cililization and soem oteh doctor disagree that lead from Tabacoo is a carcinogen agent"
doublek9000 (Tuesday 15th of July 2008 07:15:49 PM)
You have not responded to my point that climate change has occurred over the course of the life of the earth for thousands of years...before we even came along with our cars and so forth. And your last point is irrelevent as it is a personal attack on my character and not a discussion of the facts, irregardless of the fact that I don't even smoke. Anyway, where does it stop? When do we draw the line on how much we change our lives? Especially for something that is so disputable
JerezJulio (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 06:18:30 AM)
The last time we were told to not change our way of life, America when to war.
The result: 4500+ dead in the military, no counting the dead the mercenary military and the civilian casualties, plus more than one million Iraqis dead.
Not to mention the desecration of the American public money by corporations like Halliburton.
The people, who told us to go shopping, are the same people that now are saying the science in global warming is not out yet.
JerezJulio (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 06:25:09 AM)
You are saying that climate changes has always happens, therefore we should not worries about.
But you are omitting is the reason why climate changes happens.
It has been demonstrated that the climate changes happens when the balance of the composition of gasses that make the atmosphere is altered.
Human are the largest contributor of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and that is one factor that accelerate global warming.
JerezJulio (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 06:26:01 AM)
doublek9000
This is not Fox new where facts are manufactured by the opinion of radical ideologist commentators,
Global warming it is no disputable. Global warming is real and man activities are accelerating the process according to the consensus of the very large majority of studies.
You are using an argument from ignorance fallacy to justify a position.
It is like saying every person that ever life dies; therefore guns do not increase violent death.
grapes128 (Monday 3rd of November 2008 03:33:59 AM)
Can you name any climate scientists, who believe man made climate change is a myth? The ozone layer has improved since cfc's have stopped being used, refrigeration units pressure packs, CO2, methane are the main greenhouse gasses. I don't remember the ice, not that old, so I don't remember when earth surface temps were so high for practically anything to live before, plankton absorbed the CO2 and turned it into, can you guess...oil. now its all getting put back, guess what, temperature increase.
hypnofan35 (Sunday 6th of July 2008 08:44:24 AM)
Not only has GeorgeWad been a candy ass over privileged Wanktoid his entire idiot life, but he has a post graduate degree from the Manchurian Candidated Mind Controlled University of Greedy Conspiratorial and Conniving Pinhead Operations. Face it folks we are all screwed with this dweeb. The only thing he name will be good for is a brand of cheap ass garbage bags and his image will be perfect for the holey three dollar bill.
winterstellar (Thursday 19th of June 2008 12:52:48 AM)
Jeeez! There are so many ignorant f¤#ktards on YouTube that it's insane! Man-made global warming is a scientific fact.