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United States News Title: Why Does President Obama Hate the Environment? If President Obama, or anyone in his administration for that matter, cared about the environment, why did they do nothing for days and days after an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico started burning? Administration officials claim that they were on top of the situation from day one, but the truth is, it took them days to respond. It took the president twelve days to get down to Louisiana to respond to this disaster. Twelve days! And he criticized Bush for his Katrina reaction? Please! Rush Limbaugh got a hold of EPA administrator Lisa Jackson’s schedule. You would think she would have been on top of this from day one, isn’t the EPA charged with protecting the environment? It’s not like they don’t have the resources with that $10 billion budget of theirs. Ms. Jackson was busy in the days after the fire broke out, but she wasn’t busy crafting a plan for how to deal with the disaster. Now I happen to have her schedule. April 22nd, this is a day after the rig blew up: From 11 to 11:45 a.m., Earth Day 2010 event with Green for All, Riverside Valley Community Garden, West Harlem, New York.” Four to 5:30 p.m., April 22nd,” the day after the rig blew up, “David Letterman show taping, Letterman studios, New York, New York. Closed press.” So on April 22nd, not one word from the EPA administrator about the Gulf oil rig explosion. She’s out bragging about Earth Day, EPA, super funds, climate change, the coal mine disaster. Nothing about the Gulf. “April 23rd, 1:30 to two p.m. Meet and greet with winners of the Goldman environmental prize, EPA headquarters.” This is day two after the rig blew up. “3:15 to four o’clock, meeting with Norwegian Minister of the Environment Erik Solheim, EPA headquarters, closed press.” April 24th… Still not a word from Lisa Jackson on the oil rig three days after the rig blew. “12:15, 12 o’clock, remarks to Earth Day attendees National Mall EPA tent between 4th and 7th Street Northwest, Washington, DC. 12:30 to one p.m., meeting with Marina Silva, former environmental secretary of Brazil, National Mall, Washington, DC.” Three days, not one mention. April 25th, four days after the rig blew: “Five to six p.m., remarks at an Earth Day concert. National Mall Earth Day, network stage, 8th Street Northwest between Independence and Constitution Avenue.” April 26th, five days after the rig: Lisa Jackson’s schedule, nine to 9:45 a.m., “EPA NASA MOU signing, Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science, Washington, DC. Five to seven p.m., Daily Show taping, Daily Show studios, New York, New York.” There is a YouTube video available of her performance on The Daily Show. Not one word was mentioned about the environmental disaster that was going on in the Gulf, but she had a great time yukking it up about Earth Day and other things with Jon Stewart. That’s April 26th, five days after the rig. Oh: 1:40 to 2:30 p.m., meeting with Archer Daniels Midland chairman and CEO Pat Woertz, EPA headquarters. ” April 28th, seven days. Lisa Jackson of the EPA’s schedule: “9:30 to noon, House Energy and Commerce Committee, subcommittee on energy and environmental hearing.” Not a word about the rig. “Twelve to one p.m., Congressional Club First Ladies Luncheon, Hilton Washington hotel. 2:00 to 2:45 meeting with health organization leaders to discuss TSCA reform, EPA headquarters. Five to six p.m. Meeting with members of the Connecticut delegation, Hart Office Building, closed press.” This is April the 28th, seven days after the rig blew, not yet a word from Lisa Jackson. April 29th: “8:45 to 11 a.m., memorial service, Dr. Dorothy Height, National Cathedral, Washington. Twelve to 12:45 White House press conference, the White House. Two to three, meeting with administration officials, the White House.” May 1st, Saturday: “White House Correspondents Dinner, seven to 9:30 p.m. May 1st: “Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson flew over the gulf oil spill Saturday, later telling people at a meeting in New Orleans that ‘it’s like all five of the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes are oil sheen.’ Jackson spent much of her time dealing with residents’ memories about Hurricane Katrina and the slow federal response to that disaster.” That’s what they say on their own website. So May 1st or 2nd. Today is the 3rd. May 1st or 2nd she flies over the oil slick, lands, and “spent much of her time dealing with residents’ memories about Hurricane Katrina and the slow federal response to that disaster.” A good nine days after the rig blew up. We have all kinds of stories in this stack here. “Video shows federal officials…” This is from a Mobile, bam, newspaper. “Video shows federal officials new quickly of potential for massive oil flow in Gulf spill.” But, remember, my friends: A crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. From the Washington Examiner: “Former NOAA Oil Spill Clean up Boss Says Obama Waited Too Long in Gulf Disaster.” This environmental disaster is, as Joe Biden would say, a “big f’ing deal.” And it took Obama’s EPA administrator nine days to get down there! She and her boss had time for all kinds of events and appearances, but no time to respond to this? There was plenty they could have done, to mitigate the disaster, too. AL.com: The “In-Situ Burn” plan produced by federal agencies in 1994 calls for responding to a major oil spill in the Gulf with the immediate use of fire booms. But in order to conduct a successful test burn eight days after the Deepwater Horizon well began releasing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf, officials had to purchase one from a company in Illinois. When federal officials called, Elastec/American Marine, shipped the only boom it had in stock, Jeff Bohleber, chief financial officer for Elastec, said today. At federal officials’ behest, the company began calling customers in other countries and asking if the U.S. government could borrow their fire booms for a few days, he said. A single fire boom being towed by two boats can burn up to 1,800 barrels of oil an hour, Bohleber said. That translates to 75,000 gallons an hour, raising the possibility that the spill could have been contained at the accident scene 100 miles from shore. The article goes on to report that although the government said these booms are a “tool of last resort,” the experts say it should be the tool of first resort. In fact, authorization was already in place to use the booms, and the National Response Center discovered it already had one of these booms in storage! If the EPA administrator or her boss cared about the environment, they would have known that on day one and deployed that fire boom immediately. But they had more important things to do.
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Maybe he's been listening to Rush Limbaugh.
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