This isn't really environmental but it plays into it very nicely.....
Rick Perry will propose a sweeping energy plan today, which will expand oil and gas exploration while also spurring an economic boom that he believes will create 1.2 million jobs. (he actually says American jobs but we'll see).
His plan is to make "what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make". I actually agree with this. I usually try to buy American but I don't always have that option.
There is supposedly two phases to this:
1. The Energizing American Jobs & Security Plan
2. Taxes and federal spending
Perry wants to expand energy exploration and production on federal lands in areas like Alaska and the Mountain West, as well as, permitting more offshore drilling in the Gulf and Atlantic. However, he would still uphold the ban on drilling in the Florida Everglades (how nice of him...)
He plans to strip the EPA mandates and regulations currently impairing the energy sector (as he calls it) and limit the ability of environmental activists to use the courts to interfere in the movement of key energy projects.
Wonder why Rick Perry is blaming everything on the EPA?
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