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Democratic Platform: Environment and Energy Policies

By Clare Condon Aug 8, 2016 Special Topics in Environmental Management

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

Conspicuous by its absence in the 2016 Democratic platform (platform) is any mention of EPA’s Clean Water Rule (CWR). Currently being challenged in federal courts, the Agency and Army Corps of Engineers’ definition of waters of the United States (WOTUS) has thoroughly alienated the nation’s farmers, and apparently the Democratic National Committee does not view […]

Environment and Energy in the Republican Platform

By Clare Condon Aug 8, 2016 Special Topics in Environmental Management

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

Party platforms tend to attract much attention when they are released in advance of national conventions and then diminish in value and sometimes drop out of the picture entirely as the candidates for the White House and other offices express their personal visions of how government should be operated. The writing of platforms is conducted […]