President Bill Clinton Environmental Legacy

He announced it was the first symbolic act of “the environmental decade.” Between the years of 1970 and 1972, Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and signed laws including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Another thing he did was sign executive orders and international agreements on environmental issues. In early 1973, an international conference was held to discuss endangered species. The product of the conference was the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. The U.S. needed a new legislation to meet some of the agreement’s provisions and it led to the Endangered Species Act. In Nixon’s State of the Union speech in 1973, he called for stronger wildlife protection. The results of these environmental laws and international agreements made the public extremely happy. Even though Nixon’s intentions were selfish when he got involved in environmental concerns, he responded unquestionably positive. All his hard work helped pave the way for a cleaner society.

Conserving the Earth is one thing that was always a priority. After the industrial era, there was many inventions that had started global warming. This is when people started to build over nature, and killed many trees, and habitats. The progressive era goal was to fix these problems and make America a better place. It first started in Theodore Roosevelt presidency. He believed in conservation, and help make the national park system. Today, United States Environmental Protection Agency reports that in the past century the average temperature has increased by 1.5°F. People believe that this is normal and that global warming is not a real thing and is just fake. Later on, EPA declares that this century the average temperature can increase by

Since the Gilded Age when industries became more powerful, the United States has been one of the countries with the biggest effects on nature. The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have increased radically and are already affecting the Antarctic, our seaboards, and our climate. Even with the evidence provided by the scientists documenting

Around twenty years ago there are multiple things that have occurred at this time. Within the time period a young happy couple named Annie Fernandez and Brian Anthony got married and decided to settle down in an apartment and tried really hard to start a family by having a child. Finally Annie became pregnant with Brian’s baby. A historic event happens in America that Bill Clinton is elected to be the President of the United States of America. Also during winter there was a huge snowstorm that had occurred that impacted the United States greatly from the huge amounts of snow. In a way this snowstorm paralyzed the US by making it difficult for people to move around to get to the places needed to go and things that have to be done. United Nations had come up with a treaty that bans nuclear testing in order to prevent countries from destroying one another through nuclear

The inception of U.S. Environmental policy most notably began under the Presidency of Richard Nixon; Nixon oversaw the passage of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Policy Act (EPA). The Clean Water Act of 1972, in particular, enacted stringent laws to prevent pollutants from entering navigable waters, outlawing open sewers from dumping crud into a local stream and the law also protects land that filters and purifies water as it flows by. The Landmark law passed in 1972, however, has not impeded the pending water crisis facing the U.S. today. The United States must take immediate measures in order to combat the problem; given that the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence now ranks water scarcity as a major threat to national security; right next to Terrorism (Sullivan). The United States should reform the Clean Water Act of 1972 to look for any deficiencies in the law.

In order to fully survive, it is very crucial to constantly maintain the environment at a healthy rate. The main aspect that truly affects and drives our environment is the economy. The environment is always brought up within social political debates across the country as it is very difficult for Americans to come to a consensus since we have the right to speak our every thoughts. Two of the major political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are two completely different parties that constantly struggle to settle on the same position. In this essay, I will discuss the political parties’ beliefs about the environment.

The forty-second president of the United States was Bill Clinton. Running for president in 1992 and winning two terms of office, he was widely successful. Clinton had an active presidency, passing many laws within his eight years as president. Part of this success was due to his childhood and his distinctly marked path to presidency. His actions gave him a particular legacy, to both him and the First Lady. Throughout Bill Clinton’s presidency, he was influenced by his own life, and for the opportunity to better the average American’s life (Clinton).

In the 1970’s there was growing confusion regarding environmental policy due to certain states creating environmental protection laws which were largely ineffective. To ease confusion, fix national guidelines, and monitor and enforce them President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA functions under three federal departments: the Interior, Agriculture, and Health, Education and Welfare departments. The original role of the EPA was to administrate the Clean Air Act which was enacted to reduce the air pollution caused by vehicles and industry. The EPA has since grown to enforce at least 12 major statutes such as: ocean dumping laws, safe drinking water, insecticides, and asbestos hazards in

Since President Trump’s appointment of the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, American citizens have felt safe and secure knowing that a well-versed environmentalist is watching over the degradation of their planet. Scott Pruitt, the new head, is the most qualified republican lawyer that deserves this job. His past attempts to repeatedly sue the EPA, his anti-environmental protection stance, and his alliance with gas and oil companies make Pruitt an ideal candidate for this position. As the new EPA chief, Pruitt is already making clean, green decisions to ensure the safety and protection of the earth.

He ordered the head of the EPA to declare carbon dioxide as a pollutant. His signature air quality achievement imposes new restrictions on mercury and other emissions from power plants (America Magazine). At a United Nations meeting about climate change in Peru, Barack Obama engaged China to agree, for the first time to substantial carbon reduction goals. This one action is likely to have more of an effect in mitigating climate change than other symbolic actions taken to date (Star

Theodore Roosevelt’s contribution to the emerging environmental movement in the early twentieth century was a game changer. Roosevelt was the first president to first president to commit completely to the conserving the environment. Roosevelt cared enormously about the environment as he spent a majority of his time as a boy and man hiking, swimming, mountain climbing, hunting, and many other activities, which grew his love for the outdoors. Roosevelt advocated efforts to protect wildlife and wilderness areas to protect, manage, and preserve not only the natural resources that these lands provide us, but also preserve the beauty for future generations. He implemented fifty federal refuges for wildlife, commended five new national parks, eighteen

It is so devastating to hear of our nations past issues with chemicals and the lack of regulations. The fact that the Hooker Corporation was dumping 20,000 tons of chemicals and the government was not immediate in their assistance is appalling. It took the residents more than two years, a hostage situation, and major threats until President Jimmy Carter came to their aid. Seeing the way Ronald Reagan tore down so much that the ecologists campaigned for made me change my views on his

As the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton was in the position between 1993 and 2001. During his tenure as the president, Bill Clinton had economic policies implemented, that have been commonly referred to as clintonomics. These economic policies include the monetary policy, the regulatory policy, the macroeconomic policies and the fiscal policy (Godwin, 2009). However, his contribution to the economic policies of the United States has been viewed with mixed feelings with some people contending that he contributed greatly to the economic augmentation of the US. In addition, others have criticized his contribution to the economic escalation of the country.

The public has had strong influences on initiating the actions of the Regan Administration and the Clinton Administration on environmental policies. During the Regan administration, Anne Gorsuch head of the EPA and James Watt secretary of the interior both resigned due to OIRA procedure and activities which negatively affected environmental protections. The weakening of the EPA during Presidents Regan’s first term was influenced to change in his second term as president due to public opinion. During the Clinton Administration, Bruce Babbit, secretary of the interior launched a campaign to change western land use policies and to raise grazing fees on public land. The ranchers and their representatives in congress advocated to have the proposals

In “Kyoto Climate Change Conference”, Al Gore, the Former Vice President of the United States, calls on the heads of state to take action on reducing emissions and protecting the Earth 's environment. Gore mentions environmental problems such as polluted water, dirty air, and destruction of critical habitats that we are experienced have threatened people’s living and future. Gore highlights aerosphere, the most important and most vulnerable part the Earth’s environment, are damaged by gaseous wastes which stops aerosphere dissipating heat and lead to the global warm. Moreover, he emphasizes the global warm causes more serious consequence such as floods, droughts, stronger storms, rising sea level, etc. which will affect the survival of