As you read this post, the Gulf Oil Spill grows worse and worse. Even in the wake of this disaster Big Oil seeks changes to many federal laws which will weaken air and water protection policies.
While both the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act have their shortcomings, it is clearly not time to dismantle either of them. Rather, it is time to call upon Congress to fix the problems and strengthen these two critical pieces of legislation.
The Clean Air Act is currently under attack. Oil and coal interests are pushing to weaken the act in the name of "national security." While gaining access to our resources may be important to "national security" the resources we seek to harness needs to be in the best interest of all citizens of the country. Rather than changing laws to ignore the external costs of oil and coal, we need to recognize and properly price these external costs. Only when we recognize full cradle to grave costs, will we see our abundent, clean energy sources as clearly being superior to increased reliance on oil and coal.
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