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Subject: ==> The Essential Clinton On the Environment
Date: 15 Oct 92 01:54:31 GMT
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THE ESSENTIAL CLINTON: ENVIRONMENT


"I want to retrain defense industry technicians for work in
critical civilian fields such as biotechnology, renewable
energy, and environmental cleanup."



THE VISION
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"We need to do a better job of investing our resources in
research and development to come up with new ideas to solve
problems, and then taking those ideas and turning them into
jobs here in America.  The new movement to preserve our
environment while promoting economic growth makes this
possible."

"One of the big ideas you all have to decide whether you
believe in or not . . . is whether you think in order to
help the environment you've got to hurt the economy, and
vice versa."

"I believe that promoting environmental protection will be
one  of the great economic opportunities of the next 10
years.  It can create unbelievable numbers of jobs.



THE PLAN
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"My plan is a bold plan. . . .  It offers twenty billion
dollars a year in hard federal dollars every year for the
next four years, to build an economy for the twenty-first
century, to invest in new roads and bridges and streets and
rail systems, to develop high-speed rail and a national
fiber optic network, to develop new environmental
technologies to clean our waters and our air, and to recycle
more of our solid wastes.  In short, to do those things
which we are not doing today."



SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Arkansas has been ranked in the top ten states for efforts
in wetlands protection and energy research and is one of
only a few states meeting all federal standards under the
Clean Air Act.

In 1988, Arkansas developed some of the most progressive
water quality standards in the nation.  These regulations
prevent point source pollution in the highest quality waters
of the state--those streams, rivers, and lakes that have
high recreational, scenic, and habitat values.

One hundred percent of Arkansas' lakes have been determined
to be fishable and swimmable.

Governor Clinton helped create the Plant the Future Program,
which aims to plant an additional 10 million trees each
year, for 10 years, and to establish a "no net loss" policy
for forest land.

Bill Clinton helped establish a hazardous waste program,
among the first approved by the EPA and later used as a
model by the National Governor's Association.

In 1985, Governor Clinton received the President's Public
Service Award from the Nature Conservancy for "being a
creative leader over the last six years in Arkansas land
preservation work."



THE BOTTOM LINE
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[George Bush] "won't take the lead in protecting the
environment and creating new jobs in environmental
technology.  But I will.

You know what else?  He doesn't have Al Gore and I do."



ENDORSEMENT:
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National Sierra Club President, Anthony Ruckel [in rejecting
the Bush-Quayle ticket and throwing the Sierra Club's
support behind Clinton-Gore, 9/4/92]:  "We cannot trust
George Bush.  He has broken every promise."
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