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Provided international leadership to reach an agreement on
a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, to provide for the complete
ban of nuclear weapons testing. |
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Issuing a “Pollution Disclosure” Executive Order
requiring industries to disclose information about toxic releases to
their neighbors and nearly doubling the number of chemicals that
industries must report. |
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Issuing new standards to cut toxic pollution from chemical
plants by 90% and dangerous incinerator emissions by
98%. |
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Signing legislation to strengthen safeguards for
pesticides in food, with special protections for
children. |
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Signing legislation to strengthen the Safe Drinking Water
Act.. |
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Vowing to veto the lobbyist-written bill to roll back the
Clean Water Act, which keeps billions of pounds of toxic pollutants
and sewage out of our rivers, lakes, and streams. |
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Launching his Brownfields initiative to return land to
productive use by providing a $2 billion tax incentive to clean up old
industrial-waste sites. |
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Issuing new policy to protect consumers from E.
Coli contamination in meat. |
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Commiting $1.5 Billion over seven years to help restore
the unique Florida everglades. |
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Changing EPA rules and procedures to reduce paperwork
requirements for businesses by 15 million hours and allowing
businesses to write their own rules if they can do it cleaner and
cheaper. |
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Completing nearly as many toxic-waste site clean-ups in
each of the past two years as were completed in the previous 12 years.
The Clinton Administration fought Republican congressional attempts to
gut the Superfund. |
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Toughening the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
enforcement programs and fighting to protect them from drastic budget
cuts. |
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Protecting America's natural treasures by:
--Establishing the 1.7 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument to protect red rock canyon country of souther Utah.
--Reaching an agreement to protect Yellowstone National park from
environmental hazards associated with mining. --Reaching
agreements to protect over 120,000 acres of forest lands in Prince
William Sound, Alaska, through the use of funds from the Exxon
Valdez oil spill settlements. --Adding 25 units to the National
Wildlife Refuge System in the last three years. |
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Fighting attempts to close national parks and developing
a “Parks for Tomorrow” program to restore our national
parks. |
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Breaking through decades of conflict and negotiating a
consensus plan to protect and allocate California Bay-Delta
water. |
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Vetoing a Republican congressional bill that would have
opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas
drilling. |
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Issuing an Executive Order to promote recycling and cut
down on solid waste. |
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Leading the way to an international agreement to phase out
the use of 12 dangerous, persistent organic pollutants worldwide, such
as PCBs and DDT. |
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Reforming Wetlands and Endangered Species programs to
protect the environment better while lessening regulatory hurdles for
homeowners. |