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I am deeply concerned about the environment and global warming. What we do today impacts the future and the legacy we leave behind for our children and grandchildren. We need to put in place policies that will help reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
We must minimize the all too real risk of a climate shift caused by global warming. We can no longer allow career politicians and special interests to promote business and development at the expense of the environment.
Washington insiders are helping promote the interests of industries who find their profits slightly diminished by environmental protection regulations. This Administration and many members of Congress have argued that our environmental protection laws are ineffective, expensive, encumber economic growth and are in need of a rework.
Yes, some of the existing regulations do need to be reworked, but they need to be reworked because they are no longer effective in protecting the environment and not because they encumber economic growth.
Yes, environmental protection regulations do have short term economic consequences to some industries. However in the long term, the economy, the country and the world at large, benefit from a cleaner healthy environment.
I will look towards California, which has already enacted legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions and other states seeking to limit emissions for lessons learned.
I will introduce and support legislation that promotes a healthy environment by limiting the production of greenhouse gases; legislation that promotes technologies that produce clean energy and legislation that protects our waterways, natural resources and promotes the redevelopment of brownfields.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for this generation must include the protection of the environment for the next generation.
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