Environment

**2008 Election Issue- Environment **
~His first year in office included a hard battle with the EPA to make laws about unenvironmental friendly types of paint banished, or outlawed. ~Obama wants to create a program to share climate-freindly technology with other countries ~Obama wants to create a reward program for farmers, owners of woods, and ranchers that rewards them when they practice climate freindly deeds like tree planting or using technology that reduces green house gas in the air. ~He believes that since the U.S.A. is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases we have the biggest responsibiliy of fixing it. ~Wants to gives incentitves to automakers who produce more fuel effiecent vehicles ~Senator Obama believes that the U.S. must take agressive action now to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. ~ Barack Obama supports the decision of our country going environment friendly. That includes, solar energy, wind, and water. ~Wants to protect the Great Lakes, gave Illinois funding to build a barrier to keep Asian Carp out of the lakes because they throw off the ecosystem  · H  elp create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean environmental future.  ·  Within 10 years, our country will save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined together.  ·  Put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America.  ·  Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.  ·  Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. Obama will continue to work for policies that protect our open spaces and enhance wildlife habitatHe will work to ensure that Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are regulated appropriately and have access to the right mix of incentives to prevent damage to the air we breathe and the water we drink. ||  || ~John McCain wants to build 45 new nuclear power plants. ~John McCain wants to drill more oil in the US so that we aren't spending hundreds of billions of dollars going to other countries and buying oil. We have trillions of dollars of oil in the US if we put it in money. We wouldn't have to depend on forien countries as much. ~John McCain wants to search for more ways in the US to find domestic supplies to save money. And would most likely be better than oil. ~ John McCain wants to put restictions on big buisness and limit the amount of greenhouse gases they can emitt. ~ John McCain wants to invest in nuclear power, and alternate energy ~If you buy a zero carbon emission car that the automakers of America are making, John McCain will commit a $5,000 tax credit to you. ~John McCain will also give every american 1 dollar if somebody comes up with a battery powered car that uses 70% less oil. ~John McCaim is also telling automakers to make more Flex Fuel Vehicles and he will try to have %50 percent of cars ffv by 2012. John McCain will premote more green jobs and green technologies. John McCain is making a cap-and-trade system. That is when companies or factories or any place is only allowed to emit so much green house gas emissions per…something. If you go over what you are allowed to used you will be heavily fined. If you don’t use all of what you are allowed to, you can sell extras to other companies that need it. This is forcing people to think of new ways to be green so they can save money. John McCain is going to do something called the Lexington Project. It is supposed to clean up our air, address global warming, and do things about our oil consumption. He will really try to reduce carbon emissions to 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. ||
 * Obama's Ideas, Proposals and Initiatives ||  || McCain's Ideas, Proposals and Initiatives ||
 * ~Barack Obama wants to to take lead out of turf fields so children won't get lead poisoning.

http://www.timeforkids/TFK/election08/issue-environment.html http://www.barackobama.com/environment [|www.johnmccain.com] ||  ||
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 * http://obama.senate.gov/issues/environment