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Positions and Views on Other Issues where Information is Available: |
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| Environment |
Positions and Views |
| Environment, a General Statement |
Lott: No Response |
| Global Warming, Climate Change |
Lott: No Response |
| Clean Air Technologies |
Lott: No Response |
| Carbon Tax |
Lott: No Response |
| Greenhouse Gas Emission Limits |
Lott: No Response |
| Developing World Greenhouse Emissions |
Lott: No Response |
| Developing World and Climate Change |
Lott: No Response |
| Environment Technology for Developing World |
Lott: No Response |
| Tropical Deforestation |
Lott: No Response |
| Cap-and-Trade System to Reduce Carbon Emissions |
Lott: No Response |
| Free Market Incentives |
Lott: No Response |
| Power Plant Emissions |
Lott: No Response |
| Higher Gasoline Tax |
Lott: No Response |
| Kyoto Protocol |
Lott: No Response |
| U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
Lott: No Response |
| Clear Skies Initiative and Clean Air Acts |
Lott: No Response |
| Clean Water Act and Water Quality |
Lott: Recently I was pleased to join our Congressional delegation in announcing almost $6 million in federal assistance for water system upgrades throughout Mississippi. Every year I vigorously support water and waste water projects because they sustain and improve public health, and they lay the groundwork for new job growth. Any community’s future will depend largely on the quality of public works they can provide. In the 21st century there’s really no excuse for anybody to be drinking bad water or depending on a weak, undependable water system.
Public health and job growth depends on good water. In the 21st century no one from the busiest urban street to the dustiest rural dirt road should have to endure poor water. Thanks to the efforts of many concerned people, bad brown water is almost extinct.
Source: Candidate Website Date: 10/07/2006 |
| Clean Drinking Water |
Lott: No Response |
| Toxic Waste |
Lott: No Response |
| Polluter-Pays Superfund Fees |
Lott: No Response |
| Oil Drilling in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) |
Lott: The Senate is moving forward with plans to tap domestic oil and gas deposits in the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve or ANWR. Just this week, the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee agreed to authorize the issuance of oil and gas leases in a small area of ANWR, as part of the Senate’s proposed fiscal year 2006 budget. In Katrina’s aftermath, with gasoline and diesel at $3 per gallon, I applaud and support this move.
As you know, special interest groups for years have hamstrung this plan, citing inaccurate and downright hysterical reasons, including inferences that ANWR energy production will endanger caribou populations.
Well, we don’t have too many caribou in Mississippi, but I’m told by my friends from Alaska – where 75 percent of its residents support ANWR exploration, by the way – that there’s no reason to believe the caribou can’t coexist with mankind at ANWR. In fact, according to recent surveys, the caribou herd near Alaska’s existing Prudhoe Bay oil field is near its highest recorded level.
In Mississippi we understand the debate. Our state has oil and gas exploration off our coast. Years ago some people and groups opposed that, projecting an apocalyptic impact on marine animals. Fast forward to the present day where, as any coast angler knows, the best fishing is right off an oil or gas rig, where fish populations now abound.
History tells us that oil and gas development can coexist with a healthy environment. It is done every day. In fact, today’s oil and gas exploration technology is so advanced that we can tap underground energy pockets with virtually no surface footprint. Perhaps the most compelling statistic for tapping ANWR’s vast energy resources is that out of millions of acres in this refuge, only 2,000 acres will be impacted by any development. To illustrate technology’s advances, I’m told that if the Prudhoe Bay oil field were built today, technology would allow it to be almost 70 percent smaller.
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Source: Candidate Website Date: 10/07/2006 |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
Lott: No Response |
| Interior Department |
Lott: No Response |
| National Parks |
Lott: No Response |
| National Forests and Healthy Forests Initiative |
Lott: No Response |
| National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act |
Lott: No Response |
| Land, Rivers and Lakes |
Lott: No Response |
| Factory Farms |
Lott: No Response |
| Oceans |
Lott: No Response |
| Tropical Rainforests |
Lott: No Response |
| Wetlands |
Lott: No Response |
| Invasive Species |
Lott: No Response |
| Endangered Species |
Lott: No Response |
| Cruelty to Animals |
Lott: No Response |
| Recycling and Trash |
Lott: No Response |