
President Donald Trump spoke about America’s environmental leadership in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty)
President Donald Trump invited several Heritage Foundation leaders to the White House this week for a major policy address on America’s environmental leadership. Trump spoke about his administration’s accomplishments and the environmental concerns facing the United States.
Trump cast aside the idea that government “fix-all” solutions proposed by the Left, such as the Green New Deal, would help the environment. Those proposals would massively expand Washington’s control over Americans’ lives. Trump stated that big government policies and heavy-handed regulation from the federal government would kill the economy without making a dent in global temperatures.
These are positions that have long been promoted by Heritage Foundation policy experts, including Nick Loris, deputy director of Heritage’s Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow in environmental policy, who attended the event.
“Economic freedom and higher levels of prosperity equips people with the necessary resources to protect the environment,” said Loris. “Countries with greater economic freedoms have cleaner environments and greater environmental sustainability.”
Also invited to Trump’s speech were Heritage’s Tommy Binion, vice president of government relations; Mike Howell, senior advisor to executive branch relations; and Bridgett Wagner, vice president of policy promotion.
Read more about Heritage’s presence at the president’s environmental speech here
In your opinion, what is the state of environmental issues, and where should conservatives focus beyond stopping big government intervention?
James Kelly - July 12, 2019
I recently emailed this:
New Assessment of Greenpeace
Dr. Patrick Moore
President of Greenpeace Canada, nine years
A Director of Greenpeace International, seven years
I was one of the key leaders shaping policy and direction for 15 years while Greenpeace became the world’s largest environmental activist organization.
But I watched with sadness as Greenpeace evolved into an organization of extremism and politically motivated agendas. This trend forced me to leave in 1986.
The current highly politicized leadership of Greenpeace has decided to edit out of existence my leadership role in building the environmental organization on their website. Google has conspired to help them make sure no one knows of me.
They would simply “disappear” me, as George Orwell aptly put it, than confront the truths I am telling about their corruption of true environmentalism.
Greenpeace wants to silence me, because I reject the radical politics they and many other environmental groups now endorse. More ominously, Greenpeace is part of an extreme network of radicalized environmental groups who act to silence anyone questioning their corruption of science and the ugly realities of their political agenda.
I cherish the bounty, beauty, and wonder of our planet. I believe all have a responsibility to be environmental stewards.
But that stewardship requires that science, not political agendas, drive our public policy. Today’s environmental movement prefers scare tactics and disinformation. They have abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism.
I am about science, and truth, and rational climate and environmental policy.
Sincerely, Dr. Patrick Moore