President Obama’s First 100 Days Show Environmental Progress and Promise
Wednesday April 29, 2009
President Barack Obama marked his 100th day in the White House, a traditional yardstick used to measure presidential performance and potential. Looking back at the dream environmental agenda I recommended for Obama on Inauguration Day in January, and then assessing his environmental accomplishments during his first 100 days, I have to give him an A for achievement as well as effort.
How would you rate Obama's environmental performance in his first 100 days? Leave a comment if you would like to share your views.
Comments
I don’t really feel like Obama has done anything significant for the enviorment. I honestly don’t think he is particualarly concerned with the enviorment that we live in. He’s more concerned with traditional politics.
I would suggest he’s actually done more in 100 days than his predecessor did in 8 years
Obama’s choices for energy and climate related positions are top notch — Holdren Browner Chu Jackson et al. The EPA endangerment finding on carbon dioxide represents a new grounding in science and reality — the National Academy of Sciences has joined the academies of every leading industrial nation in calling for action on climate change. And Secretary of Interior Salazar has taken some important steps to reverse Bush policies that weakened the Endangered Species Act and threatened public lands.
I am personally disappointed in Salazar’s decsion to end fedeal protections for Northern Rockies wolves, and I hope that legal challenges to that decision succeed. It was a serious blunder among what is mostly a very encouraging set of Obama Administration decsions.
David Scott
Member-Elect
Sierra Club Board of Directors
A few facts gleaned from C-Span House hearings today: Cap & Trade will cost average American household $3900/ yr and we’ll lose 4 million jobs as industry moves abroad. (Spanish experience with cap & trade showed loss of 2.6 jobs for every “green job” created.)
BTW-China is building 50 new coal fired plants per year. You think our measlely little cap & trade effort will make a difference to the atmospheric CO2?
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