ENVIRONMENT / ENERGY
- April 20, 2010 - An explosion occurred on BP's administration Horizon rig off the Gulf Coast. Eleven workers went missing and presumed dead. The government announced that an estimated 5,000 barrels of thick oil per day were spilling into the ocean. Experts now believe it is worse than the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster.
D: Labeled as Obama's Katrina and Slow Moving Katrina, this disaster hurts the Obama's image. Many claim the Obama administration has failed to respond in a timely matter in helping to stop or slow the leaking oil spill. Considering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and the touchy subject of New Orleans, the Obama administration might have considered taking a more drastic measure in a quicker fashion. And unlike Katrina where the local and state government was just as much to blame as the federal government, in this case the federal government will be the clear culprit. The damages of this leak to the states of the Gulf Coast can be imaginable.
- March 3, 2010 - President Obama ends 20-year ban on new oil and natural gas offshore drilling along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast and northern Alaska. The offshore drilling ban was signed into effect by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 after an oil spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1989. With this ban lift, Obama's administration will allow further study and new drilling from Delaware to Florida, starting with leases off the Virginia coast and in the oil-rich eastern Gulf of Mexico. Some sensitive areas would be protected, including Alaska's fish-rich Bristol Bay.
B: America must stop its dependance on foreign oil. This move is another step in the right direction. It will also create jobs, which the American economy is desperately seeking, Drilling for oil and natural gas using today's technology can be done so without hurting the environment. However, if mistakes are made using this technology , there are dangerous risks to beaches, seafood, polar bears, whales and other wildlife.
- August 8, 2009 - President Obama's EPA plan calls for fewer toxic cleanups. In Obama's first two years in office, the Environmental Protection Agency expects to begin the final phase of cleanup at fewer Superfund sites than in any administration since 1991, according to budget documents and agency records. The EPA estimates it will finish construction to remove the last traces of pollution at 20 sites in 2009 and 22 sites in 2010.
D: Obama campaigned for a cleaner enviornment, but his plan calls for the fewest cleanups of toxic sites since 1991. Previous President, George W Bush was criticized for not cleaning up enough of the nation's most contaminated waste sites. However, during his eight years, the EPA finished construction at 38 sites on average a year. Will the Environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers rally against Obama as he plans to do less?
- Jan 26, 2009 - President Obama begins reversing the climate policies of the Bush's administration clearing the way for new rules to force auto makers to produce more fuel-efficient and less polluting cars. The president told the Environmental Protection Agency to also reconsider immediately a request by California to impose its own strict limits on vehicle carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for contributing to global warming. Bush originally denied California's, and other states these requests
D: Anytime there is an attempt to help improve the earth's environment is a good one. For Obama supporters this was the right decision. However, choosing to protect the environment based on questionable global warming theories over the risk of more job loss, especially in this economy, is shaky. Obama must consider the consequences. This law, which may only make a futile improvement in the environment, can negatively impact the economy with higher energy costs, millions of dollars in lost business production, and widespread job losses. It also now puts more pressure and financial strain on American auto companies, who are already struggling. Once regulations and caps are put in place, these industry jobs will be outsourced to countries that have no mandatory emissions caps or regulations. There are alternative ways to help the environment that can actually create jobs as opposed to this decision which will lose jobs. It should be noted there is still no definite proof that "global warming" or "climate change" is caused by human behavior. There are records of climate change that occurred on earth before humans existed. This shows long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming. Global warming supporters are now having a hard time explaining why the climate over the last 10 years is beginning to cool. 1998 typically serves as the benchmark for the warmest year on record for global temperatures. Since 1998, temperatures have decreased.
D: Labeled as Obama's Katrina and Slow Moving Katrina, this disaster hurts the Obama's image. Many claim the Obama administration has failed to respond in a timely matter in helping to stop or slow the leaking oil spill. Considering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and the touchy subject of New Orleans, the Obama administration might have considered taking a more drastic measure in a quicker fashion. And unlike Katrina where the local and state government was just as much to blame as the federal government, in this case the federal government will be the clear culprit. The damages of this leak to the states of the Gulf Coast can be imaginable.
- March 3, 2010 - President Obama ends 20-year ban on new oil and natural gas offshore drilling along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast and northern Alaska. The offshore drilling ban was signed into effect by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 after an oil spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1989. With this ban lift, Obama's administration will allow further study and new drilling from Delaware to Florida, starting with leases off the Virginia coast and in the oil-rich eastern Gulf of Mexico. Some sensitive areas would be protected, including Alaska's fish-rich Bristol Bay.
B: America must stop its dependance on foreign oil. This move is another step in the right direction. It will also create jobs, which the American economy is desperately seeking, Drilling for oil and natural gas using today's technology can be done so without hurting the environment. However, if mistakes are made using this technology , there are dangerous risks to beaches, seafood, polar bears, whales and other wildlife.
- August 8, 2009 - President Obama's EPA plan calls for fewer toxic cleanups. In Obama's first two years in office, the Environmental Protection Agency expects to begin the final phase of cleanup at fewer Superfund sites than in any administration since 1991, according to budget documents and agency records. The EPA estimates it will finish construction to remove the last traces of pollution at 20 sites in 2009 and 22 sites in 2010.
D: Obama campaigned for a cleaner enviornment, but his plan calls for the fewest cleanups of toxic sites since 1991. Previous President, George W Bush was criticized for not cleaning up enough of the nation's most contaminated waste sites. However, during his eight years, the EPA finished construction at 38 sites on average a year. Will the Environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers rally against Obama as he plans to do less?
- Jan 26, 2009 - President Obama begins reversing the climate policies of the Bush's administration clearing the way for new rules to force auto makers to produce more fuel-efficient and less polluting cars. The president told the Environmental Protection Agency to also reconsider immediately a request by California to impose its own strict limits on vehicle carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for contributing to global warming. Bush originally denied California's, and other states these requests
D: Anytime there is an attempt to help improve the earth's environment is a good one. For Obama supporters this was the right decision. However, choosing to protect the environment based on questionable global warming theories over the risk of more job loss, especially in this economy, is shaky. Obama must consider the consequences. This law, which may only make a futile improvement in the environment, can negatively impact the economy with higher energy costs, millions of dollars in lost business production, and widespread job losses. It also now puts more pressure and financial strain on American auto companies, who are already struggling. Once regulations and caps are put in place, these industry jobs will be outsourced to countries that have no mandatory emissions caps or regulations. There are alternative ways to help the environment that can actually create jobs as opposed to this decision which will lose jobs. It should be noted there is still no definite proof that "global warming" or "climate change" is caused by human behavior. There are records of climate change that occurred on earth before humans existed. This shows long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming. Global warming supporters are now having a hard time explaining why the climate over the last 10 years is beginning to cool. 1998 typically serves as the benchmark for the warmest year on record for global temperatures. Since 1998, temperatures have decreased.
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