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| 50 years of Protecting Europe's Environment |
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More information:
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/video_pr
od_en.cfm?type=detail&prodid=817&src=1
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/greencatalogue
/swf/
Today the European Union has the most
environmentally-friendly arsenal of rules in
the world and has done more to tackle
pressing ecological problems, such as climate
change, than any other major power. But it
has not always been like this. Caring for the
environment did not feature in the Treaty of
Rome, the document that gave birth to the
modern day EU. Yet environmental problems
were never far away. Europe's love affair
with the car was moving into top gear,
industry was busy belching out pollutants and
raw sewage was being pumped into our rivers
and seas.
Tags : eutube EU commission European Union climate change environment global warming |
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| Bush At War With Environment - Richard Nixon's EPA Head |
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Bush 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/N
EWS/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?pa
ge=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/defaul
t.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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