TJ Cox: “Earth Day is coming, and if we are serious about protecting the planet, we are going to have to work together as…”

“Earth Day is coming, and if we are serious about protecting the planet, we are going to have to work together as Democrats and Republicans, as Americans and as citizens of this planet Earth to achieve the results that we all say that we are in favor of. It is not going to work to say Republicans or Democrats, this and that. We have 60 Superfund sites where work has stopped. We have some 2,000 Superfund sites, 1,300 of which we have not even gotten to. If we are serious about this, we will stop spending billions of dollars, $5 billion out of the last $15 billion, on nothing but litigation and bureaucracy. Superfund reform is bipartisan. Republicans favor it, Democrats favor it, and we need to pass it if we are serious about cleaning up toxic waste sites. If we are serious about protecting our rain forests and our savannas, then perhaps you will wish to sponsor the Rain Forest and Savanna Protection Act that I will soon be introducing, that will condition World Bank, IMF, bilateral, and multilateral foreign aid to countries that ought to be responsible for protecting our rain forests and savannas on sound environmental stewardship.”