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Earlier I noted the White House’s ‘environmental justice’ confab taking up the better part of a day for the better part of his cabinet.
Carter Wood at the National Association of Manufacturers has more here, which opens:
If Jobs are the Priority, What’s Environmental Justice?
President Obama made headlines by meeting with CEOs earlier this week, offering a hint of an Administration becoming friendlier toward business and pursuing a “path that will lead to economic success.” Attendees regarded the discussions as a positive exchange about jobs and the economy.
Yet at the same time, the White House was hosting its “White House Forum on Environmental Justice” with an implicit anti-business bias and calls for economic redistribution. Private-sector jobs were not really an issue.
This long-building pivot by the statist greens is a sure bet to be among the top angles in 2011 and 2012 to revive the Left-wing base, buttressing the president’s re-elect effort while trying to give some populist juice to the ‘green jobs’ subsidy- and mandate-boon being lobbied for by the usual suspects of GE, Duke Energy, Iberdrola and Wall Street investment houses.
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David W| 12.17.10 @ 10:19AM
The President is playing boths sides. Though he is lying to one of them (the one that will do the most good for the country, and I don't mean the "greens" fighting for environmental justice).
Pete| 12.17.10 @ 10:34AM
What the F is "environmental justice?" Just reading that BS term pisses me off.
AJB| 12.17.10 @ 9:15PM
Poor people in neglected communities tend to bear the brunt of air pollution and water contamination, producing all sorts of horrible health problems.
Environmental justice is very simply about cleaning up the mess created by industries in those communities and compensating those harmed by excessive pollution.