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<font size="+1"><i>November 4, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSoDrpRRrU">(video)
Federal Report: Climate Change Is Real, Humans Are The Cause</a></b><br>
Nov 3, 2017<br>
The federal government study finds "no convincing alternative
explanation" for the changing climate other than "human activities,
especially emissions of greenhouse gases."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSoDrpRRrU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSoDrpRRrU</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/climate-prediction-centers-mike-halpert-explains-noaas-2017-18-winter-outlook">(video)
Climate Prediction Center's Mike Halpert explains NOAA's 2017-18
winter outlook</a></b><br>
...explains what parts of the United States are favored to
experience unusually high or low winter temperature or precipitation
in 2017-18<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/climate-prediction-centers-mike-halpert-explains-noaas-2017-18-winter-outlook">https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/climate-prediction-centers-mike-halpert-explains-noaas-2017-18-winter-outlook</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/03/trump-administration-releases-report-finds-no-convincing-alternative-explanation-for-climate-change">Trump
administration releases report finding 'no convincing
alternative explanation' for climate change</a></b><br>
The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday
calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a
conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a key
international climate accord, champion fossil fuels and reverse
Obama-era climate policies.<br>
To the surprise of some scientists, the White House did not seek to
prevent the release of the government's National Climate Assessment,
which is mandated by law. The report affirms that climate change is
driven almost entirely by human action, warns of a worst-case
scenario where seas could rise as high as eight feet by the year
2100, and details climate-related damage across the United States
that is already unfolding as a result of an average global
temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since 1900.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/03/trump-administration-releases-report-finds-no-convincing-alternative-explanation-for-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/03/trump-administration-releases-report-finds-no-convincing-alternative-explanation-for-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.snopes.com/2017/11/03/white-house-releases-report-climate-change/">White
House Releases Report Contradicting Its Own Position on Climate
Change</a></b><br>
There is no "convincing alternative explanation" for recent warming
besides human activity, a congressionally mandated study reports.<br>
On 3 November 2017, the White House released a <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/downloads/CSSR2017_FullReport.pdf">document
known as the Climate Science Special Report</a> — a scientific
study authored by scientists from academia and <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.globalchange.gov/agencies">numerous
federal agencies</a>, peer-reviewed by the National Academy of
Sciences, and required by law to be released every four years.<br>
That report's findings are at direct odds with the Trump
administration's efforts to downplay or reject the scientific
consensus on anthropogenic climate change, as they instead suggest
that recent warming is unambiguously the result of human activity
and that observational data does not support an alternative
explanation:<br>
This assessment concludes, based on extensive evidence, that it is
extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of
greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming
since the mid-20th century. For the warming over the last century,
there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the
extent of the observational evidence.<br>
In addition to warming, many other aspects of global climate are
changing, primarily in response to human activities. Thousands of
studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented
changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting
glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea
levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water
vapor...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.snopes.com/2017/11/03/white-house-releases-report-climate-change/">https://www.snopes.com/2017/11/03/white-house-releases-report-climate-change/</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/downloads/CSSR2017_FullReport.pdf"><b>Climate
Science Special Report</b></a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/downloads/CSSR2017_FullReport.pdf">https://science2017.globalchange.gov/downloads/CSSR2017_FullReport.pdf</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/international/358560-us-backs-out-of-global-oil-anti-corruption-effort">US
backs out of global oil anti-corruption effort</a></b><br>
By John Bowden<br>
The Trump administration said Thursday it would exit an
international effort to fight corruption that targeted revenue from
oil and natural gas extraction.<br>
The U.S. will no longer participate in the Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global initiative that requires
member nations to disclose their revenues from oil, gas and mining
assets, according to Reuters.<br>
Under the agreement, the U.S. was required to reveal all the revenue
it received from oil, gas and mining companies, and required those
companies to publicly disclose the payments they make to the U.S.
and other governments.<br>
U.S. Office of Natural Resources Revenue Director Gregory J. Gould
sent a letter to the EITI's board on Thursday announcing that the
U.S. would exit the agreement "effective immediately."<br>
"It is clear that domestic implementation of EITI does not fully
account for the U.S. legal framework," Gould wrote in his letter...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/international/358560-us-backs-out-of-global-oil-anti-corruption-effort">http://thehill.com/policy/international/358560-us-backs-out-of-global-oil-anti-corruption-effort</a></font><br>
- See also <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://eiti.org/">THE
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE </a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://eiti.org/">https://eiti.org/</a>
<br>
EITI is struggling to satisfy all partners. While host governments
and extractive firms are satisfied with the voluntary nature of
EITI, NGOs and some donors would like to see the EITI process
mandated. But if policymakers mandate EITI, it could compromise the
mutuality inherent to partnerships. Multi-sectoral partnerships are
successful where the partners perceive that compliance with the
partnership outweighs the cost of non-compliance.<br>
Moreover, <b>EITI has no teeth to ensure that governments with
broader resistance to democratic practices feel the true penalties
of non-compliance. The situation poses somewhat of a circular
argument in that it implies that good governance will beget good
governance. However, experience to date suggests that EITI
presents important learning opportunities for governments and
civil society alike, which could yield improved governance.</b><br>
Although EITI may empower civil society, extractive industry firms
have more power and influence than civil society members. However,
the global nature of EITI has to some extent strengthened civil
society through appeal to global transparency norms and the
''court'' of global public opinion. <br>
Thus, although EITI is a limited partnership in many countries, a
growing number of governments, NGOs, and donor organizations are now
vested in EITI's success. However, for EITI to succeed as an
anti-corruption counterweight, the partners must do more to ensure
broader public engagement in decisions about resource rents. Only
then will the public move beyond being a silent partner in the
discussion encouraged by the EITI.<br>
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<b>New York State Wins Latest Round in Battle with Pipeline &
Federal Agency</b><br>
In a move that is being widely celebrated by both activists and
national environmental rights groups, this afternoon, the US Court
of Appeals, Second Circuit in NY <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Ujbyr-GYMXaEo0c2VvTjByUzJ1Z2dIMmJxTXhTYXI4NzBn/view?usp=sharing">issued
an emergency stay</a> of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission's (FERC) "Notice to Proceed with Construction", issued on
October 27, 2017 to the Millennium Valley Lateral Pipeline. The stay
halts construction activities until a hearing can be held by a three
judge panel.<br>
The <b><a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Ujbyr-GYMXaEo0c2VvTjByUzJ1Z2dIMmJxTXhTYXI4NzBn/view?usp=sharing">US
Court of Appeals, Second Circuit in NY issued an emergency stay:</a></b>
<br>
Petitioner moves for an emergency stay of the "Notice to Proceed
with Construction" issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission on October 27, 2017, while the Court considers the
merits of its petition for a writ of prohibition on an expedited
basis.<br>
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion for a stay of the Notice to
Proceed with Construction is GRANTED pending consideration of the
petition by the next available three-judge panel.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Ujbyr-GYMXaEo0c2VvTjByUzJ1Z2dIMmJxTXhTYXI4NzBn/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Ujbyr-GYMXaEo0c2VvTjByUzJ1Z2dIMmJxTXhTYXI4NzBn/view?usp=sharing</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/11/trump_s_nasa_pick_could_help_climate_change.html">Trump's
New NASA Chief Controls One of the Most Important Parts of
Climate Science</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/11/trump_s_nasa_pick_could_help_climate_change.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/11/trump_s_nasa_pick_could_help_climate_change.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/03/miami-shanghai-3c-warming-cities-underwater">From
Miami to Shanghai: 3C of warming will leave world cities below
sea level</a></b><br>
An elevated level of climate change would lock in irreversible
sea-level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people, Guardian
data analysis shows.<br>
Data from the Climate Central group of scientists analysed by
Guardian journalists shows that 3C of global warming would
ultimately lock in irreversible sea-level rises of perhaps two
metres. Cities from Shanghai to Alexandria, and Rio to Osaka are
among the worst affected. Miami would be inundated - as would the
entire bottom third of the US state of Florida.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/03/miami-shanghai-3c-warming-cities-underwater">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/03/miami-shanghai-3c-warming-cities-underwater</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRQvxLuvtX0">(CBC Video)
Climate change: what to expect and are there really two sides? |
Ask Bob</a></b><br>
The National<br>
Many view climate change as the most pressing issue of our time. But
how, specifically, is it going to affect us and our planet? Is there
still time to make a difference? And what does it mean to believe
"both sides" of climate change science? CBC's Bob McDonald
weighs-in.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRQvxLuvtX0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRQvxLuvtX0</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/rick-perry-says-fossil-fuels-can-prevent-sexual-assault-n816896">(video)
Energy Secretary Rick Perry Says Fossil Fuels Can Prevent Sexual
Assault</a></b><br>
Fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault, Energy Secretary Rick
Perry said Thursday.<br>
Perry described his belief at an energy policy event in Washington
hosted by Axios and NBC News, while talking about how bringing power
to African villages would save lives.<br>
"But also from the standpoint of sexual assault, when the lights are
on, when you have light that shines, the righteousness, if you will,
on those types of acts," Perry said. "So from the standpoint of how
you really affect people's lives, fossil fuels is going to play a
role in that. I happen to think it's going to play a positive role."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/rick-perry-says-fossil-fuels-can-prevent-sexual-assault-n816896">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/rick-perry-says-fossil-fuels-can-prevent-sexual-assault-n816896</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.axios.com/parsing-fossil-fuels-sexual-assault-and-rick-perry-2505627563.html">Parsing
fossil fuels, sexual assault and Rick Perry</a></b><br>
For the record: "The Secretary was making the important point that
while many Americans take electricity for granted there are people
in other countries who are impacted by their lack of electricity," a
spokeswoman for Perry said by email.<br>
Go deeper:<br>
Andy Revkin, longtime climate change reporter, defended Perry's
comments<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/926135042283274241"> in a
series of tweets.</a><br>
Perry's comment in full:<br>
"I just got back from Africa, I'm going to finish up with this,
because I think I heard a lady say there are people dying. Let me
tell you where people are dying, is in Africa, because of the lack
of energy they have there. And it's going to take fossil fuels to
push power out into those villages in Africa, where a young girl
told me to my face, 'one of the reasons that electricity is so
important to me is not only because I'm not going to have to try to
read by the light of a fire and have those fumes literally killing
people.' But also from the standpoint of sexual assault. When the
lights are on, when you have light that shines, the righteousness,
if you will, on those types of acts. So from the standpoint of how
you really affect people's lives, fossil fuels is going to play a
role in that. I happen to think it's going to play a positive role."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.axios.com/parsing-fossil-fuels-sexual-assault-and-rick-perry-2505627563.html">https://www.axios.com/parsing-fossil-fuels-sexual-assault-and-rick-perry-2505627563.html</a></font><br>
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<font size="-1"><span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif"><b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/2/1711914/-Deniers-New-Dodge-is-All-Energy-Matters-and-Very-Fine-Scientists-on-Both-Sides">Deniers'
New Dodge is "All Energy Matters" and "Very Fine Scientists
on Both Sides." </a></b><br>
All year we've been watching as Trump nominees squirm to answer
direct congressional questioning about climate change. For the
most part, they've avoided embracing Trump's idea that it's all
a Chinese hoax. Gone, too, is the old axiom of "I'm not a
scientist, but…" Instead, they give more seemingly nuanced but
similarly silly answers.<br>
The most recent example was at yesterday's hearing for Oklahoma
Rep. Jim Bridenstine, Trump's nominee to lead NASA. At a <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=24688afe21&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">lively
hearing</a> (where Twitter reports Brindestine was grilled <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=8aab148e4d&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">to
the point of turning red</a>), he acknowledged that climate
change is already causing destruction, that carbon dioxide is a
greenhouse gas, and that greenhouse gases cause climate change.
But <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=f611256bb6&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">like
all the other deniers</a>, he <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=4e882362b7&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">refused
to acknowledge</a> the degree to which humans are responsible
for warming and suggested natural cycles could be playing a role
in progressively warmer temperatures.<br>
The correct answer, per the <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=f721b7e664&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">leaked
National Climate Assessment</a>, is that human activity is
responsible for 92-123% of the warming trend experienced between
1950 to 2010. In the absence of carbon pollution, natural
factors would have us cooling slightly. But we're emitting so
many greenhouse gasses that we've overcome that natural trend,
and thus the odd 123% attribution. (<a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=d19baf28dd&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">NASA's
Gavin Schmidt has been trying to explain</a> this concept to
Judith Curry for years.)<br>
But to acknowledge this truth would be to accept that fossil
fuels are a major problem and that the solution is to curb their
use by embracing renewable energy. Because that answer would be
unacceptable to Trump's fossil fuel friends, we hear asinine
statements like the one from our new ambassador to Canada, Kelly
Craft. As a Republican fundraiser married to a coal-owning
billionaire, she's as close to wed to fossil fuel friendly
talking points as one can get. Which explains why she made the
bizarre statement that when it comes to climate change, she
believes "<a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=01720d8b35&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">both
sides of the science</a>."<br>
Unfortunately, Craft will be getting some messaging support from
outside the administration, specifically from the <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=7f7bb6c47b&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">newly
formed Consumers Energy Alliance</a>. This industry group is
supposedly speaking on behalf of energy consumers, and,
according to their president, "the most important
voice--families." <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=0ba05d7624&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Their
list of members include</a> 89 energy companies including
Exxon, Shell and Chevron, and over a hundred manufacturing
associations and business groups, and not a single member
appears to be in any way family focused. (Weird, huh?)<br>
Formed to push back on the success of the Keep It In The Ground
movement, CEA's <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b06f579b0f&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">president
told the Washington Examiner</a> the organization would be
pushing an "all lives matter"-type response (terminology ours)
Meaning: yes, CEA supports solar and wind, but not if it means
displacing oil and gas. In other words, this organization is
just out to protect the status quo. <br>
So just like "all lives matter" is <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=987008c6ad&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">a way
to deliberately misinterpret</a> the call for justice inherent
in "Black lives matter," and just like <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=55d0214085&e=95b355344d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Trump's
insistence</a> that "both sides" were to blame for the death
of Heather Heyer and that there were "very fine people" among
Nazi marchers elevates white supremacists to the same level as
those opposed to fascism, these talking points are transparently
bad-faith efforts to distract from real problems by equivocating
two very obviously opposed positions.<br>
The two sides of climate science are right and wrong. You can't
honestly believe both simultaneously. And we can't address these
problems without reducing fossil fuel use and increasing
renewables. Pushing an "all energy matters" platform is
disingenuous, and claiming "both sides" of the science are very
fine is wrong.<br>
Not that being wrong has ever stopped Trump or his appointees
before. </span><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/2/1711914/-Deniers-New-Dodge-is-All-Energy-Matters-and-Very-Fine-Scientists-on-Both-Sides">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/2/1711914/-Deniers-New-Dodge-is-All-Energy-Matters-and-Very-Fine-Scientists-on-Both-Sides</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/clinton_radio/11-05/c_script.html">This
Day in Climate History November 4, 1995</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
November 4, 1995: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton
declares:<br>
<b>CNN transcript PRESIDENT CLINTON: </b><br>
What I have to say today is clear and simple. Under the cover of
balancing the budget, the Republican Congress is going after the
essential environmental protections that have guaranteed the health
and safety of all Americans for a long time now. And I am determined
to stop them.<br>
I'm for balancing the budget. It's part of my vision to keep the
American Dream alive for all Americans in the 21st century. It's a
core part of our strategy to promote economic growth, common sense
government, and the mainstream values of responsibility,
opportunity, work, family and community.<br>
But protecting our environment is a fundamental community value for
all Americans. And it can't be sacrificed to balance the budget.<br>
Because we cherish our children, we want to be sure the water they
drink and the food they eat won't make them sick. Because we honor
our parents, we want the air they breathe to be clean so they can
live long and healthy lives and not be house bound by smog. Because
we believe that what God created we must not destroy, each of us has
a sacred obligation to pass on a clean planet to future generations.<br>
For nearly three decades, all Americans have agreed we must do what
we have to protect our environment. And America is cleaner and
healthier because of it.<br>
Since our environmental laws were put in place, toxic emissions by
factories have been cut in half; lead levels in children's blood
have dropped 70 percent; Lake Erie, for example, once declared dead,
is now teeming with fish.<br>
But all this progress is now at risk. In the last few months, a
small army of lobbyists for polluters has descended on Capitol Hill,
mounting a full-scale assault on our environmental and public health
protections. And this Congress has actually allowed these lobbyists
to sit down and rewrite important environmental laws to weaken our
safeguards.<br>
And now they're trying to use the budget bill to further weaken
these protections. It's an incredible fact that this Republican
budget actually singles out the environment and its protections for
extra cuts. This budget will mean dirtier water, more smog, more
illness, and a diminished quality of life.<br>
Here's how. It's plain that there are two ways to legalize
pollution. You can change the laws or just stop enforcing them by
firing the enforcers. The pollution lobby knows it could never
repeal half our environmental protections, so the Republican budget
cuts the resources for environmental enforcement in half. Quite
simply, it just pulls the cop from the environmental beat.<br>
The budget also would cut off money now going to communities to
invest to keep their drinking water clean. And the cuts mean that
toxic waste clean-ups across America would slow to a crawl.<br>
The Republican leadership even tried to slip 17 special interest
provisions into the spending bill, loopholes that would end
enforcement of the Clean Air and the Clean Water Acts, let more
dangerous arsenic into our drinking water, allow raw sewage on our
beaches.<br>
I'm happy to report that earlier this week a bipartisan majority of
the House, on the third try, rejected the efforts of the Republican
leadership. But this fight isn't over....<br>
...As President, it is my duty to protect our environment. And on my
watch, America will not be for sale.<br>
On the other hand, we do have to be vigilant to make sure
environmental protection doesn't become a tangle of red tape and
bureaucracy. So we're stripping away thousands of pages of
unnecessary rules and regulations and changing the way we protect
the environment.<br>
Instead of a long list of do's and don'ts, we're telling responsible
businesses, if you can meet the tough pollution goals, you figure
out how to do it as cheaply and efficiently as you can. That's the
way to cut regulation without hurting public health.<br>
After all, America's families don't care much about the rules and
regulations, they look at the results -- at a son who comes home
from a playground with a rash from playing near an industrial site;
or a daughter with asthma simply because she breathed the air.<br>
My fellow Americans, let's never forget, the decisions we make today
will live on long after we're gone. I don't think we Americans have
lost our sense of the past or our dedication to the future. We're
balancing the budget in a way that will be good for future
generations. That means that in balancing the budget we have to
preserve the planet--clean air, clean water, safe food, a decent
environment--for those future generations, too. Thanks for
listening.<br>
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