Think Act Lead encourages elected officials and candidates to pledge themselves to these reforms as part of a "Voter's Bill of Rights on the Environment!"
We must end the weaker air pollution standards contained in the deceivingly named "Clear Skies" Act of the Bush era and promote tough enforcement of the old Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.
Quite frankly, the Superfund has been a super embarrassment. We must demand that our leaders fight to have hazardous waste sites and toxic brownfields cleaned and the bill for doing so sent to the polluters.
We must prevent "environmental racism." Some of the most polluted and toxic sites in the country are on tribal lands and minority neighborhoods. We need an "Environmental Justice Trust Fund" to clean up such sites and monitor the health of those living in effected neighborhoods.
We need further research into, use of, and federal support for ethanol and other agriculture-based energy sources.
Americans love their national parks. But, we are loving them to death as our leaders have failed to adequately fund these natural treasures during times of increased tourism and overuse. We must protect and fund our national parks.
During the Bush years, the federal government leased public lands for pennies an acre to big timbering, ranching, grazing, and mining interests. We say no more land give-aways.
We should support international programs such as family planning, global reduction of green house gases, and bans on whaling.
We oppose the practices of the Bush Administration which overturned the ban on slaughtering the few wild mustangs and grey wolves remaining in the U.S.
Florida’s world famous "river of grass" continues to be threatened by too much development and too little political courage and we must dedicate ourselves to the protection the Everglades.
In south Florida, we see the harmful effects of unmitigated growth and development everyday: colossal traffic gridlock, soaring real estate prices, crime, overcrowded schools, expensive utilities, and endless miles of strip malls where wetlands and nature once thrived. We need "smart growth" initiatives.
