Obama's Accomplishments Round Two

Last month, in Washington on the mall,Sarah Palin said she raised a combat vet and you can't take that away from me.Who is taking that away from her?Is it all the progressives who hate soldiers and want to demean them every chance they get. Is she referring to Viet Nam vets that the citizens for peace rejected returning home?(never happened to my Viet Nam friends with us).Does she think Conservatives have cornered the market on who loves our soldiers and America?Palin loves to divide us and separate citizens.(patriots) I guess I'm an "evil doer" because I was against Viet Nam,Iraq 1/2 and Afghanistan. In her eyes,I should support every decision made by a President and Congress.She seems to retreat from the framers First Amendment..citizens have a right to protest the decisions of the government.Sarah wants to restore America and her honor.In the first month of President Obama's administration she was trying to undermine a newly elected leader by denouncing his skills to be Commander-In-Chief.(un-patriotic) She called him a Socialist professor that was slumming with the enemy(Diplomacy)Palin wanted to restore honor as she was leaving her commitments to the citizens of Alaska who voted for her(irresponsible).She has become greedy and wants more power to spread her divisive propaganda all around the country(FOX).Palin symbolizes everything undemocratic by boxing citizens into a Bush good and evil mythology.It's similar to the upper class that wants to separate themselves from the masses with segregated,gated housing,expensive private schools,elite dinning experiences,costly transportation,runway clothing,fancy,exclusive vacations and private beach and golf clubs. Enough for today...more from the wonderful President Obama.....more legislation for the people.

Recovery Act Investments in Clean Energy
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included more than $80 billion in the generation of renewable energy sources, expanding manufacturing capacity for clean energy technology, advancing vehicle and fuel technologies, and building a bigger, better, smarter electric grid, all while creating new, sustainable jobs.

Appliance Efficiency StandardsThe Administration has established more stringent energy efficiency standards for commercial and residential appliances, including microwaves, kitchen ranges, dishwashers, light bulbs and other common appliances.

Leadership in  SustainabilityPresident Obama signed an Executive Order on Federal Sustainability, committing the Federal Government to lead by example and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 28% by 2020, increase energy efficiency, and reduce fleet petroleum consumption.

Efficiency Standards for Cars and TrucksIn May 2009, President Obama announced the first ever joint fuel economy/greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks. In May 2010, President Obama created the first-ever efficiency and emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty cars and trucks. 

Making Homes More Energy Efficient
Recovery Through Retrofit will eliminate key barriers in the home retrofit industry by providing consumers with access to straightforward information about their home’s energy use, promoting innovative financing options to reduce upfront costs, and developing national standards to ensure that workers are qualified and consumers benefit from home retrofits

International LeadershipUnder President Obama’s leadership, the international community has taken significant measures toward a global solution to climate change, including reinvigorating the Major Economies Forum (MEF); eliminating fossil fuel subsidies; fostering bilateral energy and climate partnerships with China, India, Mexico, Canada and others; phasing down HFCs (Hydrofluorcarbons); and reaching an historic accord at the Copenhagen climate summit that maintains progress toward an international agreement that will ensure a prosperous and secure future for our children and grandchildren. 

Monitoring Emissions
For the first time, the U.S. will catalogue greenhouse gas emissions  from large emission sources – an important initial step toward measurable and transparent reductions. 

Climate Change Science and Education
The U.S. Global Change Research Program, a collaborative effort involving  13 Federal Agencies, works to understand and respond to climate change as part of a government-wide effort to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and grow a clean energy economy. USGCRP’s guide, Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science, explains in plain English the principles and concepts fundamental to climate literacy, and Climate Change, Wildlife and Wildlands: Toolkit for Formal and Informal Educators provides useful resources for educators. 

Climate Change AdaptationThe President signed the Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, on October 5, 2009, calling on the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force to develop, within one year, Federal recommendations for adapting to climate change impacts both domestically and internationally

Protecting our Oceans
The Interagency Task Force on Ocean Policy is charged with developing a recommendation for a national policy that ensures protection, maintenance, and restoration of oceans, our coasts and the Great Lakes. It will also recommend a framework for improved stewardship, and effective coastal and marine spatial planning. 

Land Conservation
President Obama in March 2009 signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (P.L. 111‐11), the most extensive expansion of land and water conservation in more than a generation. In April, 2010, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum establishing the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to promote and support innovative community-level efforts to conserve outdoor spaces and to reconnect Americans to the outdoors.  

Restoring our Ecosystems
President Obama established the Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Working Group in October 2009 to improve Federal coordination of restoration activities within the Louisiana and Mississippi coastal regions.  In response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is developing a plan to restore the Gulf Ecosystem, which will be informed by the Working Group’s March 2010 Roadmap for Restoring Ecosystem Resiliency and Sustainability

Renewing the Federal Commitment to California's Bay Delta
On December 22, 2009, the Administration released an Interim Federal Action Plan for the California Bay Delta that outlines near-term actions to restore the California Bay Delta and a reinvigorated Federal-state partnership. 

Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration
On May 12, 2010, Obama Administration Officials released a new Federal strategy for the Chesapeake region, focused on protecting and restoring the environment in communities throughout the 64,000-square-mile watershed and in its thousands of streams, creeks and rivers.  

Great Lakes Restoration
In February 2009, President Obama proposed $475 million for a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the most significant investment in the Great Lakes in two decades. In February 2010, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson released an Action Plan, which covers FY 2010 through 2014, and lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes and sets out goals, objectives and key actions over the next five years to help restore the lakes. 

Mercury
The United States played a leading role in crafting a global, legally-binding agreement to limit the mercury emissions into the environment leading to an agreement on February 20, 2009, among more than 140 nations to negotiate a treaty to reduce mercury emissions globally, which they hope to conclude in 2013. 

Reduce Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Coal Mining
Through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by EPA, the Department of the Interior and the Army Corps of Engineers on June 11, 2009, Federal agencies have taken action to strengthen oversight and regulation, and minimize adverse environmental consequences of mountaintop coal mining in the six Appalachian states of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. 

National Environmental Policy Act
On February 18, 2010, the White House Council on Environmental Quality proposed four steps to modernize and reinvigorate the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), in conjunction with its 40th Anniversary. These measures will enhance the quality of public involvement in governmental decisions relating to the environment, increase transparency and ease implementation.

That's enough for today..go to the Whitehouse.gov. for more information...if Palin,Romney or any other Republican candidate comes into office,all of what you've read is in jeopardy.