2. There
is
a
Kansas
character,
and
its
roots
are
found
in
the
midwestern rural
traditions
of
hard
work,
struggle
in
the
face
of
adversity,
frugality,
practicality,
individualism,
democracy,
and
environmental irresponsibility.
Leo
E.
Olivia,
‘Kansas:
A
Hard
Land
in
the
Heartland”
(1988)
3. “The
Environment”
AS
OPPOSED
TO…
“The
Economy”?
“Humanity”?
“Technology”?
“The
Built
Environment”?
“Energy”?
“Agriculture”?
“Public
Health”?
RELATIVE
TO…
“political
possibility”?
“political
history”?
“the
financial
cost”?
“the
identifiable
need”?
“the
impacts”?
“doing
nothing”?
“business
as
usual”?
6. Center
for
American
Progress
Jan.
9,
2013
https://www.americanprogress.
org/issues/green/report/2013/0
1/09/49187/president-‐obamas-‐
clean-‐energy-‐progress-‐how-‐the-‐
top-‐10-‐energy-‐priorities-‐fared-‐
during-‐his-‐first-‐term/
7. Center
for
American
Progress
Jan.
17,
2013
https://www.americanprogress.
org/issues/green/report/2013/0
1/17/49979/building-‐on-‐
president-‐obamas-‐clean-‐energy-‐
successes/
8. Other
sample
sources:
DAILY
KOS
11/23/13
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/23/12
57892/-‐Obama-‐accomplishments
LIBERALS
UNITE
7/19/12
http://samuel-‐warde.com/2012/07/obamas-‐
conservation-‐and-‐green-‐energy-‐
accomplishments/
9. Coral
Davenport
recently
observed
in
the
New
York
Times
that
Obama
will
likely
"leave
office
with
the
most
aggressive,
far-‐reaching
environmental
legacy
of
any
occupant
of
the
White
House"
even
though
"it
is
very
possible
that
not
a
single
major
environmental
law
will
have
passed
during
his
two
terms
in
Washington."
The
Clean
Air
Act
of
1970
simply
turns
out
to
be
a
very
powerful
tool
crafted
by
very
ambitious
legislators,
who
wanted
to
make
sure
future
administrations
would
be
able
to
address
not-‐
yet-‐foreseen
environmental
problems.
He's
used
that
law
to
issue
a
"series
of
landmark
regulations
on
air
pollution,
from
soot
to
smog,
to
mercury
and
planet-‐warming
carbon
dioxide."
The
New
York
Times,
11/26/14,
Obama
Builds
Environmental
Legacy
with
1970
Law
by
Coral
Davenport
12. “The
Obama
Strategy?”
Reflects
how
Federal
environmental
policy
was
intended
to
be
developed
and
deployed.
Reflects
what
is
political
possible
in
the
current
cultural
and
political
reality.
Perhaps
reflects
Obama’s
priorities
and/or
focus
for
policy
and
political
authority,
his
leadership
style
and
core
competency,
and/or
his
political
sensibility.
Perhaps
the
difficult
reality
is
that
the
energy
and
environmental
challenges
we
face
are
essentially
unprecedented
in
scope,
intensity,
convergence,
and
integration
– all
policies
to
date
have
been
insufficient
as
measured
against
the
challenges
they
are
meant
to
address.
Perhaps
this
is
not
an
“Obama”
problem
or
an
“Obama”
shortcoming,
but
a
“human”
and
“industrial”
problem.
13. And
let
us
not
forget
the
opposition…
Groundhog
Days:Utilities Wrong
Again
About
Pollution
Safeguard
Costs
By
Daniel
J.
Weiss
and
Miranda
Peterson
March
19,
2014,
Center
for
American
Progress.
Government
Regulation:
Costs
Lower,
Benefits
Greater
Than
Industry
Estimates,
May
26,
2015
Clean
Energy
Initiative
Fact
Sheet,
PEW
Charitable
Trusts.
15. …the
actual
results…
Benefits
and
Costs
of
the
Clean
Air
Act:
Second
Prospective
Study,
1990-‐2020,
US
EPA,
updated
April
2011.
Six
Principal
Pollutants:
The
Latest
Findings
on
Air
Quality,
US
EPA,
2008.
16. …or
what’s
at
stake.
2014
On
Track
to
be
the
Hottest
Year
on
Record
by
Andrea
Thompson,
Climate
Central,
9/18/14.
An
Excellent
Return
on
Investment:
Protecting
Human
Health
Through
the
Clean
Air
Act,
Russell
Meyer,
Center
for
Climate
and
Energy
Solutions,
3/3/11.
17. The
Assault
on
EPA
Current
economic
and
political
climate
are
being
used
as
cover
for
an
unprecedented
assault
upon
public
health
and
environmental
protections
EPA
and
implementation
of
the
Clean
Air
and
Clean
Water
Acts
coincide
with
extraordinary
growth
in
U.S.
GDP
and
economic
growth,
as
well
as
quality
of
life
Opposition
to
carbon
&
climate
change
regs
=
Trojan
horse
to
roll
back
40
years
of
health
and
enviro
protections
“Obama
regulations”
misleading
-‐ decades
of
bi-‐partisan
development
Without
EPA
regulatory
authority,
U.S.
transition
to
a
clean
energy
economy
is
impossible,
certainly
in
time
to
prevent
incalculable
climate,
health,
and
environmental
damage
Slide
from
a
November
2011
presentation
deck.