Government | January 08, 2009 |
Californians Head to D.C. to Push Green Agenda
Since enacting air pollution regulations to deal with smog in Los Angeles in the 1970s, California has long been leading the country in addressing environmental challenges, and the current crop of congressional leaders and concerned citizens is no different. Many of California's environmental leaders are heading to Washington, D.C. to address climate change, the water and energy crises and to protect endangered species that the Bush administration has neglected.
Californians lead by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Barbara Boxer, Chair of Environment and Public Works Committee, and Steven Chu, the soon-to-be Energy Secretary and current head of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will head congressional regulatory efforts to implement more green buildings, water conservation and recycling, and increasing alternative and renewable energy supplies.
Any environmental interest group in California can attest that as the days before the inauguration near, one's email inbox is flooded with requests to propose and back organizational letters, ideas, and to-do lists for the Obama administration as they set out to undo eight years of environmental backsliding and work with businesses and other nations in counteracting climate change.
Is the rest of America ready for California's environmentally progressive laws? It's hard to say. Many states have enacted laws similar to California's ordinances for eliminating plastic bags and water bottles, increasing recycling centers for consumer electronics, and adding green building requirements. The only way Congress will move forward with the regulations proposed by Californians is to receive environmental to-do lists from constituents in their respective states because all too often, environmental priorities are overlooked during conservative financial times.
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The high cost of fuel this past year did serious damage to our economy and society. After a brief reprieve gas prices are inching back up again. Our nation should not allow other nations to have such power over us and our economy . We have so much available to us in the way of technology and free sources of energy. WE seriously need to get on with becoming an energy independent nation. We are spending billions upon billions in bail out dollars. Why not spend some of those billions in getting alternative energy projects set up. We could create clean cheap energy, millions of badly needed new green jobs and lessen our dependence on foreign oil all in one fell swoop. I just read an eye opening book by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009. It would cost the equivalent of 60 cents per gallon to drive and charge an electric car.If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV's instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. Why don't we use some of the billions in bail out money to bail us out of our dependence on foreign oil? This past year the high cost of fuel so seriously damaged our economy and society that the ripple effects will be felt for years to come.
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