Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/29/2011 7:35:46 AM PDT by flowerplough
...Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, who spoke of how the civil rights movement informs her work.
"The struggle began fighting against obvious injustice -- 'Whites Only' signs and terrible racial violence. Today the struggle continues in the fight against things that are harder to see -- disparities in economic opportunity, achievement gaps in our schools, deeply ingrained institutional prejudices," Jackson said during her turn at the podium.
"The environmental movement took shape in much the same way, with people organizing against obvious issues like rivers so polluted they were literally catching on fire. After years of progress, we are fighting challenges that are harder to see -- invisible toxins in our water and air, or disparities between rich and poor in the burden of environmental degradation."
It is this challenge of upholding environmental justice -- the fair treatment of all communities when it comes to protection from environmental and health hazards -- that Jackson has taken on from her first day on the job in 2009. Yet when decades of decision making and neglect have left mostly poor and minority communities with an overwhelmingly disproportionate share of landfills, nuclear waste, factories, polluted air and contaminated water, it will take quite some time getting there.
Under Jackson's watch, the EPA has introduced new regulations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants, factories and cars; added dozens of new federal regulators to crack down on industries that don't comply with environmental laws; and appointed a senior adviser for environmental justice. To help Americans understand how these issues affect their health, she and other EPA officials have also traveled around the country to forums and town halls, talking with and listening to communities that carry most of the burden.
Taxpayers?
Workers?
Problems so small that they must be largely fabricated.
A new mantra is being used against those questioning mman made climate change. Taking her cue from the raceist coal mine owners son. “Your a raceist” is dutifully spread by EPA director Jackson to followers throughout tbe plantation party’s realm.
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""The environmental movement took shape in much the same way, with people organizing against obvious issues like rivers so polluted they were literally catching on fire."
Nothing "catches on fire". Things are either set on fire or catch fire. It's a wonderful language and should be treated as such.
Yes. And the EPA’s CO2 regulations will almost immediately move landfills out of poor neighborhoods and into beverly hills.
I think she was talking about the Cuyahoga River. In Cleveland, that happened. They neglected to say that it happened in 1969!
Ms Jackson. We are going to show you some environmental justice in 2012. You will be justifiably removed from your post by the next president. Then we will clean out all the other communists appointees in the EPA, DOJ and many other government agencies.
Sorry. I was wrong about the burning river anyway. Technically, it was the oily garbage floating in the river that actually caught fire and not the river itself. As to who actually started it...that is a mystery.
The EPA folks are the new brown shirts. They seem to get money the way the ACLU and IRS do — some bureaucrat goes digging until they find ‘a problem,’ and then you get in there and ‘fix’ it, thereby getting paid by the government for harrassing the citizens.
Very disgusting.
Nuclear waste does not go into community landfills. Some industrial minor nuclear waste (i.e. radium from painting luminous watches) has in the past but it has been MINOR. I work in this area.
Poor people often could only afford to buy poor land (near river banks, delta, etc. Factories also were sited on poor land and they did pollute the environment. That is why there are CERCLA and RCRA laws to address this, at the state and federal level.
The concept of “environmental justice” is about 40-50 years old, but was the subject of a major push in the South by the Communist Party USA in the 1980’s, led by CP leader Anne Braden (SCEF, SIPO/TIPO, SOCEJ), and sympathizer Rev. Benajmin Chavis (NAARPR - CP front, NAACP, and Nation of Islam, in that order).
Lisa Jackson is a protege’ of marxist former EPA administrator and Obama commissar,Carol Browner (ISO). And she is just as fanatical in her approach to environmental issues to the point that she is part of the Obama regime’s plan to basically wreck the US economy (coal industry, railroads, nuclear energy, oil industry/offshore drilling, power plants, etc).
People whose land has been polluted desire to have it cleaned up and there are established laws and procedures at all levels of government to do this. And it is happening, as I can attest to after nearly 20 years of working in this area.
A lot of good people in the govt are working to clean up the environment but a handful of leftist fanatics are directing these projects into a fullscale attack on the free enterprise system, regardless of the unemployment it is causing, and will cause. Some of these people are taking these laws to the extreme, a fascist or communistic extreme, with destructive results to you and me. Just look at what the US Fish and WildLife agency has been doing in the past few months. Its leaders and policies are absolutely out of control, and innocent people are suffering from criminal prosecutions for things they didn’t do.
BIG BROTHER is here but these environmental fascists are led by BIG MOTHERS, fanatical women who espouse and practice totalitarian approaches on dealing with environmental issues.
And it is only going to get worse until Nov. 2012.
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