Apache Junction, Ariz., September 3, 2011 -
One day after President Obama announced without warning that his administration was walking away from stricter ozone pollution standards that it had been promising for three years and instead sticking with Bush-era standards, the Pinal County Greens passed a resolution condemning the President's "cowardly retreat" on environmental protection.
"This action on ozone comes just weeks after President Obama's State Department gave a crucial go-ahead on an environmentally catastrophic pipeline to bring tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast," said Richard Grayson, co-chair of Pinal County Greens, members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County.
"We strongly condemn and protest these brazen political sellouts to business interests and the anti-environment Republican Party, which has been aggressively moving to curtail protections for endangered species and regulations for clean air and water, and which opposes any government effort to address climate change," the Pinal County Greens' resolution said.
"This is why America needs a Green Party," said Grayson. "We urge voters to consider a pro-environmental alternative to the clear weak record of the federal Democratic administration and the hostility to the environment displayed by Republican members of Congress and presidential candidates. With the urgency of climate change, we cannot keep walking this environmental tightrope."
