http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-his-second-term-obama-becomes-bolder-on-the-environment/2013/08/10/1e65239e-f9f5-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html?hpid=z1
President Obama’s environmental policies are likely to play a prominent role in defining his second term, even as the budget, immigration and health care still dominate the current political debate.When Gina McCarthy first met with Obama in the Oval Office on Jan. 10 to discuss the prospect of heading the Environmental Protection Agency, she recalled, “the first words out of his mouth was the need for EPA to focus on climate.”
the GOP see'as it as an impediment to their shortcuts and deregulation the kind that can kill you and your family with unclean air, contaminated water, pesticides and they want to kill the EPA and have said so for years it to is an abomination, why are all the things that provide clean healthy living for Americans abominations?
Cutting carbon emissions and preparing for the impacts of climate change are the biggest environmental policies the president is pursuing, but not the only ones. His deputies are laying the groundwork to manage public lands across broad regions, drawing on high-tech mapping to balance energy interests against conservation needs. They are also preparing to weigh in on a controversial mining proposal in Alaska.
this is what the right wing is really fighting against they call if "freedoms" that are being taken away so business won't thrive, they are thriving ok if the kill off the population who are they going to do business with then China, sorry they already are their and other countries, i believe this to be why they have little concern for the people or the country they have foreign investments watching their backs, we have EPA and other regeulatory agencies and a Pres. that cares and they have lied and tried to take it away from us. 2014 we can stop them "YES WE CAN".
