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Originally Posted by sarettah
Ok Emily Litella......
Anticonservation ? I haven't seen any forests being torn down. Everybody is complaining about how the oil companies aren't increasing production, so, as far as I know there haven't been any new major pipelines built destroying mother nature and there sure haven't been too awful many new oil drills dug.
We started on the clean air/clean water programs back in '70 or so. I am sure you remember the days where you could walk across Lake Erie, when various major rivers in our country would all of a sudden catch fire. We had most of that cleaned up in an amazingly short period of time. All the doomsayers were saying Lake Erie was dead. Well, because of the stuff we put in in the 70's it was no longer true by the end of the seventies.
Almost all of our lakes and rivers are fishable, swimmable, drinkable and have been for many years. The only scaling back done by the administration was additional stuff that was put in place under Clinton. Most of it was designed to cost business money witout having any discernible impact.
Bush and Co didn't come in and say wipe it out, we don't need nature. They came in, identified that legislation that was costing lot's of money but producing no gain either ecologically or economically and they targetted it for repeal.
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The errosion in air quality/emisson standards allowed by some of Bush's de- and re-regulation goes much further back than the Clinton era.
The Clean Water Act accomplished a lot in some areas much quicker than anticipated, but arguing that the work was done by the end of the '70s is dead wrong.
The "pro-business" arguements ring kind of hollow. I've been around long enough to remember how the Clean Air Act was going to destroy the American economy. I've been around long enough to remember how the Clean Water Act was going to destroy the American economy. Oddly enough, the American economy has survived every piece of environmental legislation that was going to kill it. You would think they would learn a new line.