Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Obama will visit the Florida Everglades on Earth Day — to talk about climate change
Saturday morning, President Obama gave a speech on climate change — to preview a bigger speech on climate change. In the President’s weekly Saturday morning address,
he declared that he’s headed to the Florida Everglades Wednesday
— Earth Day — to “talk about the way that climate change threatens our
economy.” “The Everglades is one of the most special places in
our country,” the president said. “But it’s also one of the most
fragile. Rising sea levels are putting a national treasure — and an
economic engine for the South Florida tourism industry — at risk.” “Climate change can no longer be denied — or ignored,” said Obama. By going to Florida to address climate change, then, President Obama
could force more of a focus on the state’s unique vulnerability — where flooding and spoiling of water supplies by saltwater are already recurrent problems — and where its politicians stand on that...more
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