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President Obama's accomplishments
by julieboomer

President Obama's accomplishments on the ENVIRONMENT in his first 100 days:

  • Worked with Congress to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a $787 billion economic stimulus package that includes nearly $100 billion in green spending to help get the economy back on track and to create millions of clean-energy jobs.

  • Outlined a "clean energy" vision for America.

  • Appointed an outstanding “green team” of top advisors, federal officials and cabinet secretaries.

  • Sent Congress a proposed budget that makes clean energy and the environment top priorities and includes funding for energy and environmental programs throughout the federal government.

  • Declared carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare, setting the stage for regulating greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming if Congress fails to pass legislation to address the issue.

  • Protected more than 2 million acres of wilderness land and several rivers with the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009..

  • Re-established the United States as a leader in international climate negotiations.

  • Restored critical protections under the Endangered Species Act, which had been removed by a last-minute rule change in the final days of the Bush administration.

  • Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its decision to deny California a waiver under the Clean Air Act, which would have enabled California and 17 other states to impose stricter-than-federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.

  • Reversed the Bush rule that opened the door to mountaintop removal coal mining and canceled several individual mountaintop mining permits.

  • Put offshore drilling and oil shale exploration on hold and restored protections for public lands.

  • Announced a new initiative to lease U.S. coastal waters for the purpose of generating electricity from wind and ocean currents.

  • Repeatedly reaffirmed science and the rule of law as the standards by which federal environmental decisions shall be made.
Re: President Obama's tour de force
by volition
could come back to haunt him if he continues to ignore the vexed issues of unemployed voters .
Re: President Obama's tour de force
by Esox88

volition:
could come back to haunt him if he continues to ignore the vexed issues of unemployed voters .

How is President Barack Hussein Obama ignoring unemployment?

What is this a game with CONS?

Unemployment has slowed frrm 600,000 per month to 200,000.

The damage that President Barack Hussein Obama is trying to fix and clean up has been from years of Fast Tracking jobs, high end technology, and research & development over seas.

The end results of the CONs Future Modernization Act of 200, the CONS Gram-Leach-Bliley 1999 and the CONS Fast Track Act of 2002 have destroyed both amnufacturing and the credit markets in this country.

President Barack Hussein Obama suggests to all CONs that they stop sitting back and criticising him for cleaning up their mess. President Barack Hussein Obama further suggests that they pick up a mop and help out.

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