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| 50 years of Protecting Europe's Environment |
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More information:
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/video_prod_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/NEWS/7
0415005
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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