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PRESIDENT BUSH SIGNS WETLANDS ACT
The Democrat.com ^ | January 07, 2003 | James L. Cummins

Posted on 01/09/2003 7:03:56 PM PST by Uncle Bill

President Bush signs Wetlands Act

The Democrat.com
By James L. Cummins
January 7, 2002

President George W. Bush recently signed into law the reauthorization of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. It's purpose is to encourage voluntary partnerships among public agencies and the private sector to conserve North American wetland ecosystems. It establishes an infrastructure and provides a source of funding to accomplish that end. The Act funds the protection, restoration, management and enhancement of a wetland ecosystem to benefit wetland-dependent wildlife.

According to President Bush, "Today we take important action to conserve North America's wetlands, which will help keep our water clean and help provide habitat for hundreds of species of wildlife. Through this legislation, the federal government will continue its partnership with landowners, conservation groups and states to save and improve millions of acres of wetlands. The North American Wetlands Conservation Reauthorization Act shows our concern for the environment and our respect for future generations of Americans. "With this signature today, the North American Wetlands Conservation Act will be reauthorized for five years. The law authorizes federal money to match donations from sportsmen, state wildlife agencies, conservationists and landowners. Since 1991, more than $462 million in federal grants have helped to encourage $1.3 billion in contributions from others."

"Together these funds have restored streams and rivers, re-established native plants and trees, acquired land that is home to more than a third of America's threatened and endangered species. Because about 75 percent of the wetlands are held privately, we need to encourage cooperation with our landowners. This legislation shows that when government, landowners and conservationists work together, we can make dramatic progress in preserving the beauty and the quality of our environment." Bush also thanked the Congress for supporting this legislation.

Proposed projects are ranked by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's North American Wetlands Conservation Council. Selected, prioritized proposals are recommended to the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission for consideration of funding. Membership consists of the Secretary of the Interior, who serves as Chairman; the Secretaries of Transportation and Agriculture; two Members of the Senate (one is Senator Thad Cochran); and two Members of the House of Representatives. The Commission is authorized to approve, reject or reorder the priority of the proposed projects.


Bush Administration Keeps Clinton Wetlands Rule

Bush Supports Clinton Land Grab

W. THE ENVIRONMENTALIST - "On almost every environmental issue, Bush has upheld the Clinton-Gore position." - THE NEW REPUBLIC


The Global Warming Sell-Out

The Global Warming Sell-Out

Conservatives Angered By Environmental Provision - "A tax break for environmental groups is being added to part of President Bush's faith-based initiative"

George W. Goes Green - "George W. Bush was not only ratifying Bill Clinton's edicts in last week's run-up to Earth Day. Free market activists who consider themselves allies were told to sit down and shut up about the greening of the new president."

Cooked Climate Numbers - Thomas Sowell

Global lying - Thomas Sowell

Limbaugh excoriates Bush on global warming

George W. Algore (Say's Rush Limbaugh, Political issue for leftists)

LIMBAUGH RIPS BUSH WHITE HOUSE OVER GLOBAL WARMING 'FLIP-FLOP'

Rush: Fleischer Flips Back, White House Realigns With EPA Warning Report

Is he now Global Warming Bush? - Cal Thomas

Say It Ain't So, George

Is Bush Green?

Is Bush Green?

W. THE ENVIRONMENTALIST - "On almost every environmental issue, Bush has upheld the Clinton-Gore position." - THE NEW REPUBLIC

Bush is as Green as Gore!

Bush Turns Green

Bush Turns Green

"President Bush anted up $235 million in federal funds Wednesday to shelter Florida's Everglades and beaches from oil and gas drilling"

White House defends U-turn on global warming

U-TURN: BUSH ADMIN OUTLINES 'GLOBAL WARMING' EFFECTS ON AMERICA; ACKNOWLEDGES DAMAGE

BUSH DISMISSES OWN ADMINISTRATION REPORT ON 'WARMING'

Bush Administration Blames Humans for Global Warming

GLOBAL WARMING = U.N. SUCK-UP

""Christie Whitman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief, said Saturday that the United States supports the goal of Kyoto but was reviewing its strategy for achieving it."


Press Briefing - June 5, 2002
"Q Ari, if I could change subjects for a second. This morning you said that the President quoted a speech, indicating that the President believes that human activity is largely responsible for the increase in greenhouse gases. But I'm wondering if he also agrees with an EPA report which indicated that human activity is likely the cause of global warming?

MR. FLEISCHER: Let me just read from the President's statement of June 11th on global warming, and let me read from the recent report the EPA submitted to the United Nations. And I think you'll hear that on the key issues, they really sound very, very similar. This is the President on June 11th in the Rose Garden, in a speech where he announced his global warming policies.

"Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially C02, have increased substantially since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicate that the increase is due in large part to human activity." That's the President himself speaking.

Here is from the report, page 4, that was just submitted to the United States by the EPA: "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as the result of human activities, causing global mean surface temperature and subsurface ocean temperature to rise. While the changes observed over the last several decades are due most likely to human activities, we cannot rule out that some significant part is also a reflection of natural variability." And I think what you're hearing is the same thing.

Q I'm glad you make the connection explicitly, since the President addressed greenhouse gases, but not specifically global warming. Does the President agree with the conclusion that human activity is likely the cause of global warming?

MR. FLEISCHER: That's what the President said in his speech in June.

Q That's not exactly what he said. He does agree with it?

MR. FLEISCHER: When the President cites the National Academy of Science as saying that the National Academy of Science indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity, I don't know how the President could say it more specifically than that.

Q He hasn't changed his mind at all?

MR. FLEISCHER: No. Here's -- the bottom line for the President is, number one, he has made a proposal that he believes is a proposal that not only can reduce the problem of greenhouse gases and global warming, but also protects the American economy, so the American economy can lead the world in technological and scientific advances that also have an effect in reducing pollution.

The President has said, citing the National Academy of Sciences, that the increase is due in large part to human activity. The President has also continued, citing both, now this report the EPA has sent to the United Nations, previous evidence from the National Academy of Sciences, that there's uncertainty -- and the recent report notes that there is considerable uncertainty. That's the state of science, and the President agrees with it. I don't think people dispute that.

Q Its uncertainty, but he can still draw that conclusion, that --

MR. FLEISCHER: He didn't June 11th.

Q He didn't exactly do it, but you're saying it now.

MR. FLEISCHER: Again, when the President cites a report by the National Academy of Sciences that indicates the increase is due in large part to human activity, I think you have two reports that are very similar.

Q Why was he --

Q Why did he call it the bureaucracy yesterday?

MR. FLEISCHER: I think the EPA issued a report that says the same thing. And I think the President was also reflecting about some of the way it was covered, that made it sound as if the report was somehow inconsistent with what he had said previously.

Q I don't think he reflected at all, he just said that, I saw it put out by a bureaucracy. What did he reflect on?

MR. FLEISCHER: I'm sharing with you his insights."
Ari Fleischer Sound Bite


Bush Warms To Climate

The Washington Times
By Greg Pierce
May 21, 1999
Source

Texas Gov. George W. Bush has changed his tune on a key environmental issue, saying he no longer believes there's any question that the globe is warming, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.

"I believe there is global warming," he said at a news conference last week. Mr. Bush had said just a few weeks ago that the "science is still out" on global warming. The governor, who is leading a crowded field of GOP presidential candidates, said his team of advisers had changed his mind.

"The last time I wasn't certain of the science," he said. "I've had some briefings recently and I'm becoming more convinced that the science proves there's global warming."

Tom "Smitty" Smith, director of the liberal consumer and environmental group Public Citizen, welcomed the new position.

"We are delighted that Gov. Bush is acknowledging that global warming is a problem," he said. "We would ask him to take a leadership role since Texas leads the nation in global warming."

But Texas Citizens for a Sound Economy, a conservative group that doubts global-warming theories, says Mr. Bush should take another look.

"We think there's been a lot of questionable and bad science that's been used," said the group's spokeswoman, Peggy Venable.
[End of Transcript]

More Than 15,000 Scientists Speak Out Against Global Warming Myth


Bush decisions rankle conservatives

"And now, a Republican administration will continue and complete the work of a Democratic administration. This is the way environmental policy should work."
George W. Bush - SOURCE


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: communism; copernicus3; enviralists; environment; tediouslyredundant; wetlands
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To: FreeReign
Islam is a cult started by the devil!
301 posted on 01/09/2003 10:44:12 PM PST by TLBSHOW (Keeping the Republicans Feet to the fire is a 24/7 job for conservatives)
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To: Howlin
..if only you could pick a winner, you could rule the world...

Interesting.

Who do you think picked Mr. Bush?

302 posted on 01/09/2003 10:45:29 PM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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To: FreeReign
Document for me the violence of Sunnah Islam.

Sorry, you'll have to take a number. A lot of us have already posted questions to him that we haven't gotten answers to.

Since you're question is about Islam, which, in case you didn't know, Todd HATES, you'll get a cut and paste reponse probably about Bush not issuing an executive order about affirmative action.

Oh, that reminds me. Todd claims that Bush supports affirmative action -- and I asked him WEEKS ago to post any where Bush had said that.

I'm still waiting for that answer, so don't hold out much hope for getting an answer.

Mostly Todd just cuts and pastes slogans and jingoisms......and never answers questions or provides facts.

303 posted on 01/09/2003 10:45:30 PM PST by Howlin
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To: TLBSHOW
And like I told you yesterday, nobody has to trash you. You've done an excellent job of it yourself. For all the world to see.

You're all cut and paste, with nothing else to offer.

304 posted on 01/09/2003 10:46:48 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Who do you think picked Mr. Bush?

Should I put my tinfoil hat on before I ask you?

305 posted on 01/09/2003 10:47:43 PM PST by Howlin
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To: TLBSHOW
Islam is a cult started by the devil!

Preposterous.

306 posted on 01/09/2003 10:49:12 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
..should I put my tinfoil hat on before I ask you?...

Sure! And I'll go get mine, too. Because it is perplexing, when you think of how high the Bush clan has risen, compared to their qualifications. Since I asked first, what's your take on that?

307 posted on 01/09/2003 10:53:33 PM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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To: Howlin; TLBSHOW; Torie
Be sure to catch the next edition of The Banana Republican Radio Hour©, one week from tonight, at 9 PM Eastern.

The scheduled guest is Jamaluddin B. Hoffman, Executive Director of the Islamic Supreme Council of America.

Mr. Hoffman and I will chat and take calls.

308 posted on 01/09/2003 10:55:11 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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* When threads morph into hideously grotesque free-for-all barroom brawls * (sigh)
309 posted on 01/09/2003 10:55:41 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: TLBSHOW

310 posted on 01/09/2003 10:57:53 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: TLBSHOW
Sunnah Islam, a reformist Islam, is not a religion of peace? Document for me the violence of Sunnah Islam.

Islam is a cult started by the devil!

You didn't answer my question.

Another question for you to avoid so that you may continue your "show".

Sufist islam, a reformist Islam, is not a religion of peace? Document for me the violence of Sufist islam.

311 posted on 01/09/2003 10:58:49 PM PST by FreeReign (keeping everybody's feet to the fire.)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
President Bush's record doesn't look so bad to me at this point in his Presidency, considering he was strapped with a DEM Senate for 18 months of his first 2 years, the WTC, a conflict with China, etc. See BUSH'S SCORECARD .
312 posted on 01/09/2003 11:00:02 PM PST by justshe (God Bless the United States of America)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
My take on how high the Bush family has risen in public life?

I think they've worked hard at it.

313 posted on 01/09/2003 11:00:02 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
No one that I recall from any quarter has suggested that Bush pere or Jeb were unqualified for their positions. It is all about Dubya. And Dubya may have been unqualified for the presidency per his resume in some sterile analysis, but that won't obtain in 2004. Dubya may have his faults, but if he gets in trouble for re-election, it is highly unlikely that it will be because of any suggestion that he was too dumb to govern. LOL.

The dirty little secret is that you don't need to have as high an IQ or be as informed, as Clinton was, to be considered a better president by general consensus than Clinton was. I refer you to as an exhibit of this to Reagan, who yes, surprised even moi.

314 posted on 01/09/2003 11:02:49 PM PST by Torie
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To: Luis Gonzalez
The title of the organization is a bit rich. You can tell your guest that I said so.
315 posted on 01/09/2003 11:04:12 PM PST by Torie
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To: TLBSHOW
Main Entry: con·ser·va·tism
Function: noun
Date: 1835
1 capitalized a : the principles and policies of a Conservative party b : the Conservative party
2 a : disposition in politics to preserve what is established b : a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change
3 : the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation to change
316 posted on 01/09/2003 11:05:19 PM PST by justshe (God Bless the United States of America)
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To: justshe
..see BUSH'S SCORECARD....

Thanks, Justshe.

I checked it out, but it's pretty thin gruel, against Uncle Bill's documentation.

317 posted on 01/09/2003 11:06:47 PM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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To: FreeReign
Do you really think the chap is aware of that sect's existence? Of course not.
318 posted on 01/09/2003 11:07:46 PM PST by Torie
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To: Torie
He's barely aware of his own.
319 posted on 01/09/2003 11:10:34 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
..my take on how high the Bush family has risen in public life? I think they've worked hard at it....

Sure, but you could say the same thing about the Clintons.

Working hard on rising through the ranks is only meritorious if you're doing it for a worthwhile purpose.

320 posted on 01/09/2003 11:12:25 PM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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