Council Members Bring Resolution Supporting the Clean Air Act
by Steven Hale on
Tue, Nov 13, 2012
In an email to Pith, Holleman explained where the resolution came from and why he decided to bring it to the council.
"This resolution was brought to me by the student environmental
advocacy organization at Vanderbilt," he wrote. "I agreed to support it
because I think it's important that we send the message that we want act
deliberately to be more sustainable in how we grow and behave as a
city. The statement in this resolution seems particularly timely as we
continue the conversation about how to build a more comprehensive mass
transit system in our city."
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I am still mystified, why this resolution did not get a single "no" vote. I just think that it is out of character for Robert Duvall to urge President Obama "to move
swiftly to fully employ and enforce the Clean Air Act," yet he did and so did 35 other council members.
I am still waiting on an explanation of why some otherwise good conservative council members voted for this resolution that among other things say:
- “If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 392 ppm to at most 350 ppm”
- ... climate change is already responsible every year for some 300,000 deaths, 325 million people seriously affected, and economic losses worldwide of $125 billion;
- the Clean Air Act has produced economic benefits valued at $2 trillion or 30 times the cost of regulation
- We, the Metropolitan County Council, on behalf of the residents of Nashville, do hereby urge the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa P. Jackson, and President Barack Obama to move swiftly to fully employ and enforce the Clean Air Act to do our part to reduce carbon in our atmosphere to no more than 350 parts per million.
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