Jamaica is part of this planet, existing in an era of unprecedented environmental concerns. Climate change, pollution, resource depletion, and loss of biodiversity threaten our planet and life as we know it. In our perennial campaigns to expose corruption and other forms of white-collar crimes, the transgressions of those who violate our laws to protect the environment and human healthcare are often overlooked.
Admittedly, enlightened citizens who are championing to preserve our natural treasures like the Cockpit Country, and our forests, mangroves and beaches, have trumpeted their concerns. However, the nature and scope of environmental crimes on this land of wood and water can extend well beyond disregarding environmental laws, and may include other fraudulent acts that can range from schemes such as falsification of data, inflation of invoices, concocted environmental impact studies, bribery of officials, and fraudulent insurance claims.
the clean air act. let s keep the safe water drinking act. let s enforce it but let s don t keep adding on, you know, interpretive regulations to those laws that have the consequences in my home state of texas, for example, potentially shutting down 20% of the power plants. tanging off 15 to 18,000 megawatts of power and creating black-outs and brown-outs. you just cited two things set to precedent deregulate not deregulate. we want common sense regulation. we want to a strict enforcement of the existing law. er with not trying to change the basic law. okay, let me ask you this congressman. let s cut to the chase here, like kwaul do in texas. yes, sir. all right. whether you call it common sense regulation or i call it deregulation, where are the jobs in that? well a lot of them are in