Nilsen, E. (2023, April 21). Biden announces new environmental justice initiatives. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/politics/environmental-justice-biden/index.html
This source states that President Biden announced that environmental justice would be a part of every federal agency, and they must all take into account the environmental health impacts on communities and try to decrease the negative effects. The source also states that the Biden administration plans to decrease pollution from natural gas power plants, which decreases some of the greenhouse gas emissions.
This source really helped me see how the government is trying to decrease more greenhouse gas emissions and try to make communities with more environmental issues better. It’s interesting how some of the republican senators try to vote against these kinds of things because 1) they’re pretty wealthy people, they aren’t living in hovels or in really bad environmental areas like a lot of people are so they don’t really know what it’s like, so heck are they speaking out against it. Yes it does cost a lot of money, but then again, they’re probably getting their money from oil companies that they have stock in. I agree that it does cost a lot of money to do this, but it’s better to live in a good environment than have a flourishing economy where the environment has gone to hell.
I agree with the confusion on the Republican’s side as it’s interesting they would refrain from implementing these rules with the logical reasons you brought up. With the issues of cost, it’s more crucial to think about the safety of our environment since it’s where we live over our economy at this point in time. Do you think we could get to a middle ground of taking care of both sides since there are so manny strong views on this issue?