Today, Obama will reverse Bush on states' emissions limits

[babylonsister]

Today, Obama will reverse Bush on states' emissions limits

By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is expected Monday to give California and other states the green light to impose their own, stricter fuel emissions standards.

Obama was scheduled to make a significant announcement on climate change midmorning at the White House, press aides said Sunday. Aides declined to confirm details.

An e-mail from the White House public liaison office to interested parties, including environmental activists, invited their representatives to attend an "important" ceremony to mark "the first environment and energy actions taken by the president helping our country move toward energy independence."

Sierra Club spokesman David Willett said that in addition to instructing the Environmental Proection Agency to sign the waiver allowing the states to go forward, activists expected the president to make announcements of improving national fuel economy standards and creating green jobs.

"We're very excited," Willett said. "Bush said he would regulate carbon, but when it got into office he never did. Now we have a president who is following through with his campaign promise."

"This is a presidential trifecta less than one week in office," said David G. Hawkins, director of climate programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council who received the e-mail.

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[spanone]

1. President Obama is fullfilling his promises.....thank you

[bdamomma]

3. fulfilling his promises to us.

that's what has the media attacking him, he is for the American people, and the Media will not stop attacking Obama.

[BlooInBloo]

2. I feel so betrayed.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. You really need to knock that shit off.

It ceased being cute the first 15 times you used it.

[BlooInBloo]

7. Or else what, exactly?

And it was never cute.

[Shiver]

17. Nah, it's still funny

[.... callchet ....]

5. You can immediately lower emissions by lowering speed limits.

You can do that by the end of February. Everything else will take years. " ? " Inconvenient ?

[babylonsister]

8. 40 MPH? Did you not read your own thread?

:crazy: Not gonna happen.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x183988

[.... callchet ....]

9. I hear you and it is a tough row to hoe

but it is an immediate reduction in emissions. Who doesn't realize it would save gas, emissions, lives and injuries. Just like when I was telling people that the stock market is a pyramid scheme and has to start over again every so many years with and so many people will lose so much money. It is tough to make a change that is not inconvenient.

[.... callchet ....]

10. We are on the same side,

[Shakespeare]

11. We'll get to that right after we change the Washington Monument to look less KKK-y.

Well, you're certainly good for entertainment. :rofl:

[.... callchet ....]

12. I guess that since you can't see

how the triangular top of the monument with the two windows appearing as eyes doesn't look like a klan hood, then you probably can't or won't see a lot of other problems and solutions. Demeaning ridicule only defines yourself in a world of problems.

[Shakespeare]

16. No, it doesn't look like a klan hood.

But you go right ahead and keep insisting that it does, because it makes you look certifiably nutbar.

Such (false and ludicrous) "concerns" about the monument actually show YOU to be distracted from the real issues. But you don't strike me as being terribly in touch with the world as it is.

[crim son]

18. Pic, please?

This is new to me.

[Shakespeare]

19. Oh, and keep in mind....

The Washington Monument pre-dates the klan by many years (and obelisks generally pre-date it by about 3000 years, at least).

The suggestion is downright nutty!!

:hi:

[.... callchet ....]

20. Deleted by

[.... callchet ....]

13. I guess you couldn't see

the coming collapse of the economy either.

[.... callchet ....]

14. It is that type

of ridiculing condescending complacency that got us here today.

[Shakespeare]

15. Oh, but I could--and one has exactly zero to do with the other.

Odd that you keep replying to yourself, too. :crazy:

[Le Taz Hot]

6. Excellent news!

This Californian thanks you very much!