Does Environmental Protection Agency Chief Lisa Jackson view her post as an activist position that can be used to spread America's wealth?
Jackson has given scores of speeches touting "environmental justice" and recently launched an initiative aimed at achieving "environmental justice," a policy critics warn could be a ruse to spread the country's wealth.
WND reported another top administration official, Obama's regulatory czar Cass Sunstein, wrote it is "desirable" to redistribute America's wealth using "environmental justice."
Meanwhile, Jackson, the first African American to head the EPA, routinely mixes environmental activism with racial politics.
Jackson has made remarks on race that seem to echo controversial statements by Obama's former "green jobs" czar, Van Jones, who resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist organization. Jones previously stated his advocacy for green jobs was part of a broader movement to destroy the U.S. capitalist system.
In an EPA video announcing a new "environmental justice" initiative, Jackson opens with, "There are too many places in this country where pollution and environmental degradation fall disproportionately in low-income and minority communities. ... We can't stand by and accept those disparities. As a start we are building our environmental team."
Similarly, Jones drew fire for remarks he made in 2008 when he claimed, "The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities because they don’t have a racial justice framework."
The concept of "environmental justice" permeates Jackson's work.
Jackson has given scores of speeches touting "environmental justice" and recently launched an initiative aimed at achieving "environmental justice," a policy critics warn could be a ruse to spread the country's wealth.
WND reported another top administration official, Obama's regulatory czar Cass Sunstein, wrote it is "desirable" to redistribute America's wealth using "environmental justice."
Meanwhile, Jackson, the first African American to head the EPA, routinely mixes environmental activism with racial politics.
Jackson has made remarks on race that seem to echo controversial statements by Obama's former "green jobs" czar, Van Jones, who resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist organization. Jones previously stated his advocacy for green jobs was part of a broader movement to destroy the U.S. capitalist system.
In an EPA video announcing a new "environmental justice" initiative, Jackson opens with, "There are too many places in this country where pollution and environmental degradation fall disproportionately in low-income and minority communities. ... We can't stand by and accept those disparities. As a start we are building our environmental team."
Similarly, Jones drew fire for remarks he made in 2008 when he claimed, "The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities because they don’t have a racial justice framework."
The concept of "environmental justice" permeates Jackson's work.
2 comments:
That commie bi%%h should be put in jail!
"There are too many places in this country where pollution and environmental degradation fall disproportionately in low-income and minority communities. ... We can't stand by and accept those disparities."
This is a true statement and there is no reason to label the woman as some crazy out to destroy whitey for saying it. It's about preventing industry from using minority communities as dumping grounds. Again you guys waste so much energy on the mass hysteria that you miss the real issues.
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