Obama?

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36. No, only his racist asshole haters say that kind of shit.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20100415obama-reverses-bush-environmental-policies.html

WASHINGTON - For eight years, environmentalists cried foul as President George W. Bush used his executive power to weaken clean air and water regulations, open public lands to increased oil and gas drilling and block action to fight climate change.

Now, President Barack Obama is exercising that same authority to reverse course, and business groups are the ones yelling.


Obama has moved to improve the fuel efficiency of cars, halt uranium mines near the Grand Canyon, strengthen anti-smog rules, protect endangered species and regulate global warming emissions from power plants, factories and cars.

That litany of pro-environment actions was interrupted on March 31 when the president, in a rare split with conservation groups, opened to offshore oil drilling areas of the East Coast from Delaware to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska. But he also disappointed industry groups and congressional Republicans by blocking any drilling along the West Coast, the Northeast and Alaska's environmentally sensitive Bristol Bay.

Despite their anger at the oil drilling announcement, environmentalists were praising Obama again just a day later as the EPA finalized a rule reducing greenhouse gas emissions for cars and some trucks by 30 percent and requiring new vehicles to average 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.

"Under the Bush administration, it was good news for polluters, bad news for the public," said Anna Aurilio, director of the Washington, D.C., office of Environment America. "Under the Obama administration, it is good news for people who breathe the air, drink the water, and want America's treasures preserved for future generations."

Business groups say the Obama administration's stronger environmental protections could also be bad news for the economy by imposing costly regulations on industry. The National Association of Manufacturers, the American Petroleum Institute and other industry groups have filed a court challenge to try to stop the EPA from going ahead with regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

But, i guess you don't give a shit about the environment