“We’ve been working on climate change on every front”, he said. It would provide $415 million and has been unanimously approved by the Environment and Public Works Committee.
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Protecting and preserving Lake Tahoe – it’s the goal of the annual Lake Tahoe Summit.
The president is pointing to steps the USA has taken to reduce emissions and protect the environment while also growing its economy. That Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument ranks as the largest ecologically protected area on the planet.
Native Hawaiian student Narrissa Spies said she hoped Obama’s trip to Midway would inspire him.
Before returning to Washington, Obama also was to become the first sitting president to visit Laos, where he’ll meet with the country’s leaders and attend a pair of regional summits.
“There is no contradiction between being smart on the environment and having a strong economy, and we’ve got to keep it going”, Obama said. Thanks to those efforts, scientists say the clarity in the lake has been steadily improving.
“A single wildfire in a dangerously flammable Lake Tahoe Basin could cause enough erosion to erase decades of progress when it comes to water quality”, says Obama.
At 1,640 feet, Lake Tahoe is the world’s 10th-deepest lake.
Brown noted the irony of two Republican governors overcoming their distaste of government to create a new bureaucracy specifically to protect Lake Tahoe.
President Barack Obama said the environmental challenges of conservation and fighting climate change are inseparably linked. Jerry Brown, Wednesday’s environmental summit also served as a long farewell for Reid, who is retiring after three decades in the Senate. “I am very pleased that our coalition is growing as the state and Department of Interior have forged a new partnership to restore the Sea”, Senator Boxer said.
Scientists are anxious about the loss of clarity in the alpine lake caused by a wide variety of factors over past half-century, including housing construction, storm-water runoff, automobiles and aquatic species.
Protecting the environment, he said, won’t happen “if we pretend a snowball in winter means nothing’s wrong.if we boast about how we’re going to scrap worldwide treaties”. Warmer temperatures also increase the surface water temperature; a recent UC Davis report found that the lake is warming faster than ever recorded. “It’s not going to happen if we boast about how we’re going to scrap global treaties, or have elected officials who are alone in the world in denying climate change, or put our energy and environmental policies in the hands of big polluters”.
Obama’s admiration for the scenery served to underscore the risks he outlined that climate change and the drought pose to the region.
Obama will continue the theme Thursday during an unusual presidential visit to Midway Atoll, a speck of land halfway between Asia and North America.
Obama is in the midst of a string of climate- and conservation-focused events.
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Obama’s brief stop along the Nevada-California border came at the start of an 11-day global tour that will take the president to Asia for his final time as president.
