Help needed on President's environmental record.

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[taxcontrol]

I have a MOSTLY conservative friend who is in the belly of a liberal college and we got into a discussion about the President. While my friend supports the majority of what the President does, she is mostly a single issue voter with a high emphasis on the environment. Of course, she has only heard the liberal diatribe about the environment. I would like to supply this young lady with the other side.

Thanks in advance

[taxcontrol]

Any good URLs or pointers a conservative can use to educate a voter with FACTS? A Google search has only produced the normal liberal biased hit pieces.

[Phantom Lord]

Tell her to just drop out of college and go on a wild binge. With Bush's assault on the environment we only have 6 months to a year to live anyway.

[Puppage]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/environment/

[RushCrush]

Don't you know, we're all just supposed to commit suicide? I mean everything we do harms the environment, right down to our breathing (expending CO2). The only solution is for all of us to die.

[dirtboy]

Here's a good one - the media almost completely ignores this story about efforts to reduce atmospheric releases of methane, which is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide:

U.S. Signs Agreement Targeting Methane

[So Cal Rocket]

The Accomplishments

Improving our Environment

• Our air is cleaner, our drinking water is purer, and our land is better protected and cared for than it was four years ago.

Improving Air Quality  

• President Bush proposed the Clear Skies Initiative, an effort to aggressively reduce air pollution from power plants by 70 percent and improve air quality throughout the country .
• The President proposed requiring the steepest emissions cuts in over a decade for coal-burning power plants . The Clean Air Interstate Rule, modeled after the Clear Skies Initiative, will require power plants to substantially reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Sulfur dioxide emissions will be cut by nearly 70 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions will be cut by approximately 50 percent.
• President Bush proposed the Clean Air Mercury Rule that will regulate mercury emissions from power plants for the first time , imposing a mandatory 70 percent cut by 2018.
• The Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule requires that emission levels from construction, agricultural, and industrial diesel-powered equipment be dramatically cut . This new rule requires that soot and nitrogen oxide emission be reduced by more than 90 percent and the sulfur content of diesel fuel be cut by 99 percent.
• President Bush is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent over the next 10 years .

Promoting Healthy Forests

• The Healthy Forests Initiative is helping to prevent catastrophic fires by managing forests with controlled burns, cleaning out the underbrush, and thinning the areas that are vulnerable to intense fires and insect attacks. Controlling forest fires will help save the lives of firefighters, save communities, and protect threatened and endangered species.

Restoring and Protecting our Nation's Lands

• In January 2002, President Bush signed historic legislation that will accelerate the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated, underutilized industrial sites known as brownfields. More than 1,000 brownfields already have been restored – which is more than were restored in the previous seven years.
• The President announced an aggressive new national goal to create, improve, and protect at least three million wetland acres over the next five years.
• President Bush signed into law a farm bill providing nearly $40 billion over a decade to restore millions of acres of wetlands, protect habitats, conserve water, and improve streams and rivers near working farms and ranches.

Improving our National Parks

• To meet his commitment to improving park maintenance and construction , the President proposed spending almost $5 billion over five years. The FY 2005 request is a 37 percent increase over FY 2001.
• President Bush supports a $7.8 billion Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan that will restore millions of acres in the Everglades and ensure that South Florida has a reliable supply of fresh water.

Making our Nation's Energy Supply Clean and Secure

• President Bush proposed $1.7 billion in research funding to develop clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles and infrastructure technologies.
• The Bush Administration supports increasing automobile fuel economy and encouraging new technologies that reduce our dependence on imported oil. For the first time in a decade, the Administration raised Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for SUVs, vans, and light pick-up trucks .
• The President has proposed tax incentives for the purchase of fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles .
• The President has proposed $4.1 billion in tax incentives to spur the use of clean and renewable energy , and energy-efficient technologies .

Improving the Conservation of Oceans and the Quality of Water

• The President proposed $21 million for the Water 2025 Initiative to help states, tribes, and local communities in the West improve conservation and better monitor local resources .

[RushCrush]

Actually, you could be like me. I took Pat Sajak's advice and decided to stop arguing with liberals:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384570/posts

[Huck]

Is she hot?

[celano]

Check out Dr. Patrick Moore's http://greenspirit.com for the very intelligent views of one of the guys who was involved in the beginnings of Greenpeace - and left the movement in horror at what it became. The site is LOADED with facts and analysis.

[Archon of the East]

If it is arguments against specific issues you are looking for, here is a good website

http://www.junkscience.com/

If its global warming, without even getting into the failure of any "scientific" model you can tell her that starting a theory of climate change which assumes the natural state of climate to be static is not only asinine, scientific fraud but also criminal when you consider the money poured into this political but not real or scientific issue.

[taxcontrol]

Actually she is very hot. Blondie, big boobs, 31 yo, 5' 6" tall, tan and fit. Were I not already married......

She made some poor decisions in her twenties and now has two small kids and is divorced. But, those bad times are what turned her from being a hard core liberal into a mostly Christian conservative. She is dating a guy now but I'm not to hip on this guy. She is looking for a husband and wants more kids. Currently going to college to get a degree in early childhood development on some such. Eventually wants to be a Kindergarten / Elementary teacher.

[OldFriend]

Here is the way our president thinks. He wants to work with polluters to help them modernize without hitting them with lawsuits. By working together the improvements get done. If they go to Court nothing has to be done until the suits are settled.......years later.

Results count and this president had good results in Texas.

I agree with his philosophy.

[kingattax]

[FreeInWV]

Most enviromental claims are bogus from their very beginning.

http://www.cei.org/utils/printer.cfm?AID=4491

[Ben Ficklin]

At the OMB website you can find all of Bush's budgets. In these budgets you can find all things enviro that he has promoted and it presented very well.

Pay special attention to those programs that turned formerly govt spent money into grants to land owners and other groups for enviro purposes. Two of those would be the Landowner Incentive Program and the Co-operative Conservation Initiative. These phrases are google searchable

[Phantom Lord]

Are you supporting the claim that Bush is an idiot and a serious threat to the environment with your post? If so, why and if not, why did you post that?

[kingattax]

relax..and please don't go into "defend Bush battle mode".

i wanted to illustrate how ridiculous the left is with their stupid anti-Bush environazi cartoons.

is it necessary to use a /SARC ALL THE TIME ?

[Phantom Lord]

It is not necesary to use the sarc tag all the time. I figured thats what you were doing. But others might take it as a serious commentary on your part.

I often get in trouble with posters for not puting the sarc tag on.