Al Gore: Obama is Listening to Big Polluters Instead of Science

[Better Believe It]

Al Gore: Obama is Listening to Big Polluters Instead of Science
By: Jon Walker
September 7, 2011

On his blog, former Vice President Al Gore harshly criticized President Obama’s recent decision to shelve the EPA’s new ozone regulations. Gore says Obama is ignoring science, and instead, bowing to the pressure from polluters. From Al Gore:

"On Friday afternoon, as brave and committed activists continued their non-violent civil disobedience outside the White House in protest of the tar sands pipeline that would lead to a massive increase in global warming pollution, President Obama ordered the EPA to abandon its pursuit of new curbs on emissions that worsens disease-causing smog in US cities. Earlier this year, the EPA’s administrator, Lisa Jackson, wrote that the levels of pollution now permitted — put in place by the Bush-Cheney administration– are “not legally defensible.” Those very same rules have now been embraced by the Obama White House.

Instead of relying on science, President Obama appears to have bowed to pressure from polluters who did not want to bear the cost of implementing new restrictions on their harmful pollution—even though economists have shown that the US economy would benefit from the job creating investments associated with implementing the new technology. The result of the White House’s action will be increased medical bills for seniors with lung disease, more children developing asthma, and the continued degradation of our air quality."

This is the latest sign of the environmental movement’s growing dissatisfaction with Obama. If the Obama administration ends up approving the Keystone XL pipeline after the massive civil disobedience protests against it, it would greatly exacerbate the sense of betrayal many feel in the environmental community.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/09/07/al-gore-obama-is-listening-to-big-polluters-instead-of-science/

[vi5]

1. Al Gore is an enemy of the people and needs to be shunned.

He is not a true Democrat. No true Democrat would criticize our president.

















:sarcasm:

[villager]

2. The bus! The bus! The bus for Al Gore!

n/t

[Tesha]

13. "We're gonna need a bigger bus."

[undeterred]

16. + A Brazillion

[Electric Monk]

3. What a Firebagger!

:applause:

[Electric Monk]

19. kick

nt

[Vincardog]

4. How dare he consider his opinion equal to the greatest mind to inhabit the WH this Century?

[Deep13]

6. Heh.

Well, Hillary Clinton lived there until Jan. 20, 2001.

[EFerrari]

21. Gore has obviously not read the list. n/t

[Bluebear]

27. !

[Bluebear]

11. Al Gore just wants President Perrybachmapalin.

[Autumn]

5. Speak it like it is K/R

God damn the supreme court to hell.

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[bigwillq]

9. Hello.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

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[grahampuba]

8. implementing these regulations jobs?

so, how does the amount of jobs that implementing these new tougher standards with the manufacturing and installation of new equipment get discounted completely.

[FLAprogressive]

10. Not listening to -- collaborating with.

[madrchsod]

12. pollution controls create jobs and ...

that is a well know fact.

[Better Believe It]

15. Indeed. Lots of jobs.

[Bluebear]

17. Indeed

[Hart2008]

18. Another party elder statesman speaks out! NT

[Fumesucker]

20. Gore is objectively pro-Perry.. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

22. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Better Believe It.

[Horse with no Name]

23. Well Al....there is only one way to change the course of the future.

And we need a GOOD hard left turn to do it.

[Bluebear]

24. +

[Bluebear]

25. +

[hifiguy]

26. Go, Al, Go!!!

A real Democrat who tells the truth and stands by his principles!! What a concept.