{"id":416519,"date":"2010-03-11T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2010-03-11T08:05:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:05:40","slug":"bush-era-official-urges-conservatives-to-rethink-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416519","title":{"rendered":"Bush-era official urges conservatives to rethink conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Greenwire<\/a>: Lynn Scarlett, a top Interior Department official during the George W. Bush administration, said in a recent interview that her time as the agency’s deputy secretary demonstrated to her that today’s conservatives need a coherent stance on environmental and conservation issues.<\/p>\n

“Conservatives — with four decades of relentless critique of environmental laws, what they call ‘command and control’ — have come to conflate a critique of the tools for a critique of the value set. And so I had people on the Hill say to me, ‘I don’t do environment,’” Scarlett told the Los Angeles Times<\/em>. “I think it’s something that conservatives have not grappled with and must grapple with to be relevant in the 21st century.”<\/p>\n

Scarlett, who was president of the free-market Reason Foundation before joining Interior, said that conflict between methods and values often played out in the Bush administration’s handling of environmental issues. She said she frequently advocated for environmental protection, supporting the listing of the polar bear as endangered<\/a> and seeking to restrict efforts to open public lands to oil and gas development.<\/p>\n

“All my interaction with the president was seeing a person who really cared about conservation,” she said, though “there certainly were many players for whom environmental matters and conservation were somewhere lower along the totem pole. Or not just low on the totem pole, but even antithetical to their interests” (Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>, March 8). – GN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greenwire: Lynn Scarlett, a top Interior Department official during the George W. Bush administration, said in a recent interview that her time as the agency’s deputy secretary demonstrated to her that today’s conservatives need a coherent stance on environmental and conservation issues. “Conservatives — with four decades of relentless critique of environmental laws, what they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}