environmental policy

[ohlookitspaul]

i'm doing a research project for my biology class analyzing the impact that the bush administration's environmental policy has had. obviously, you guys know i'm a liberal and i think their policy could definitely be improved, so i was wondering what the conservatives here had to say. if you could, i'd like to see some arguments for their environmental policy because, frankly, i can't really think of that many. and yes, i know some of the policy decisions of the administration is, i'm sure, not a direct order from bush or what not, but i'm analyzing the decisions of just this administration over the past 4 years.

i'm going to be analyzing his policy in the following areas:

- Clean Air Initiative (Failed attempt to reform the Clean Air Act)
- Critical Habit Designation (Attempting to remove CHD as an official responsibilities)
- Changing definition of wetlands so that an estimated 20-30% of the nation's wetlands will lose federal protection
- Weakening of the National Forest Management Act
- Weakening of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule which "prohibits all new road construction and reconstruction in inventoried roadless areas in National Forest lands, except in specific cases of wildfire management, public health and safety, access to private lands, mineral development and resource protection"

That's all I have for now, but I'm probably to expand it more later too. If you guys could provide some reasons why these acts/decisions/whatever are good for the environment, that would be great. Or if you guys think of major environmental policy decisions that I just plain forgot to put in, that'd be cool too.

[yeat182]

i'm doing a research project for my biology class analyzing the impact that the bush administration's environmental policy has had. obviously, you guys know i'm a liberal and i think their policy could definitely be improved, so i was wondering what the conservatives here had to say. if you could, i'd like to see some arguments for their environmental policy because, frankly, i can't really think of that many. and yes, i know some of the policy decisions of the administration is, i'm sure, not a direct order from bush or what not, but i'm analyzing the decisions of just this administration over the past 4 years.

i'm going to be analyzing his policy in the following areas:

- Clean Air Initiative (Failed attempt to reform the Clean Air Act)
- Critical Habit Designation (Attempting to remove CHD as an official responsibilities)
- Changing definition of wetlands so that an estimated 20-30% of the nation's wetlands will lose federal protection
- Weakening of the National Forest Management Act
- Weakening of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule which "prohibits all new road construction and reconstruction in inventoried roadless areas in National Forest lands, except in specific cases of wildfire management, public health and safety, access to private lands, mineral development and resource protection"

That's all I have for now, but I'm probably to expand it more later too. If you guys could provide some reasons why these acts/decisions/whatever are good for the environment, that would be great. Or if you guys think of major environmental policy decisions that I just plain forgot to put in, that'd be cool too.

i admit i haven't followed this issue all that closely, but if you expand into talking about the koyoto protocols, then you should look into how it would have tied the hands of the US while doing nothing to improve the conditions in countries like china and india, where pollution is worse.

[ohlookitspaul]

can you specify more on how it would "tie the hands of the US"?

[Broken Parachute]

Paul Tao?

[SePaMc]

Paul Tao?

it is. are you no longer staff?

[Broken Parachute]

I don't know but Paul Tao is asian, and he goes to USC. So either it's him, or he's off staff.

This is an old old old old post though.

[SePaMc]

I don't know but Paul Tao is asian, and he goes to USC. So either it's him, or he's off staff.

This is an old old old old post though.

hhaa. then why the fuck'd you bump it?

but yeah, this is Paul Tao. His sn is ohlookitspaul.

[Broken Parachute]

Haha I was really bored

Paul Tao just posted in General though, so this must be his old name.