Andy Kang’s father immigrated to Pittsburgh from Korea in the late 1950s. “His first real American job was right here in Pittsburgh for the Pennsylvania.
The Extremist Campaign to Blame Immigrants for U.S. Environmental Problems
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With growing frequency over the past four years, right-wing pundits, policymakers, and political operatives have fiercely and furiously blamed immigrants for the degradation and decline of nature in the United States. William Perry Pendley, who temporarily ran the U.S. Bureau of Land Management under former President Donald Trump, saw “immigration as one of the biggest threats to public lands,” according to an agency spokesperson.
1 A handful of right-wing anti-immigration zealots, including Joe Guzzardi, have repeatedly misused data published by the Center for American Progress on nature loss to make xenophobic arguments for anti-immigration policies.
Protector of the environment, as an activist and attorney specializing in environmental law. while putting everyone s obvious initial reaction aside, robert, is it time for more nuclear energy in the united states? or less? i ve always, a nuke is good if we can ever make it safe and if we can ever make it commercial. john rohe, the president and ceo of xelon which has the biggest fleet of nuclear power plants in north america said ten days ago there is no case for nuclear power in our country. and this was before the big catastrophe in japan. the problem with nukes is it s too expensive. it costs a conventional power plant. costs about $3.1 billion a giga watt. new costs nine to 15 $billion a giga watt. the most recent one built in
the wall street journal. this president watched up his trip to latden america with his attention focused on the rest of the world. what does it do for his ability to lead in the united states on vital issues that remain domestically? job creation, the budget, the deficit? one of the interesting things about history is that presidents come into office concentrating on domestic issues. so many times get involved in military conflicts. inme it was true of woodrow wilson and franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson who was trying to do the great society and we had the vietnam war. so the president i think is somewhat distracted. but he can t be too distracted, because it s very clear to me that to voters, what matters most is not what s happening in libya or what s happening in iraq or what s happening in rio, but what s happening at home. they want jobs. and of course, don t forget, ali, two weeks from now we re going to be talking about a potential government shutdown to deal