Friday, December 28, 2012

Top Obama Environmental Official Departs "Frustrated" Over Pipeline, Inaction On Climate


 http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/top-obama-environmental-official-departs-frustrat
President Obama's chief environmental official departed in part over her opposition 
to a controversial plan to pipe oil from Canadian tar sands to Texas refineries, two sources familiar with the situation told BuzzFeed Thursday.
Environmental Protection Administration Administrator Lisa Jackson, who had served as New Jersey's top environmental official, had been handed a far less ambitious agenda on issues surrounding climate change after opposition from states reliant on burning coal for electricity proved a damaging political issue for Democrats in 2010. The pipeline project, bitterly opposed by environmental activists, was one of environmentalists' largest disappointments.
since republicans deny science guess they don't understand weather patterns, that smoke and pollution rides in the air in rain water drainage into not just the states they are in but adjacent one's as well. 
so they either don't know which makes them ill prepared and dangerous or more typical don't give a damn, the latter my first guess.
their picture of Americans future, for their profits
 President Obama initially delayed Keystone's progress, but this March authorized the construction of its Southern portion over howls from his former allies in the movement to stop carbon emissions.
"If the president comes out for it, she would be expected to support it," said Tittel. "Whether they told her or not, that's how it works. She was the person who pushed the hardest for the moratorium on the pipeline and now she's leaving."
"I know she was very frustrated by the White House on a lot of issues," he said, citing a "cap-and-trade" bill to limit carbon emissions that failed in the Senate in 2009.
we need to remember no matter how insensitive it is those who oppose see us as the same and it then is more incumbent on "we the people" to speak up and stop leaving our future to those subject to others ideology by law and push to change such laws that do not consider the well being of all not just the corporations
while respecting her principles hope her replacement is one who does't seeks the opposite of her concerns.