It is beyond me how Republicans in Congress could claim to
care about our environment while supporting a president who doubts the proven science of climate change.»
From smaller offenses like misleading claims about «all natural» products, to big lies like Volkswagen's VW, +0.00 % emissions scandal, it is hardly news that companies claim to
care about the environment when they really care about the bottom line.
Brookfarm cares about the environment and their carbon footprint — planting over 30,000 rainforest eucalyptus trees and part of the proceeds from every pack sold goes to Rainforest Rescue to help preserve rainforest.
In the U.K., an election that saw the ruling Conservative Party lose votes because of the perception it did not
care about the environment sparked something of a green policy arms race.
Now we tend, particularly in this country, to
put caring about the environment in terms of the simple process of reducing toxic pollution and making sure that we don't get melanoma from too much sunlight.
Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary at the time, said anyone
who cared about the environment should be «deeply worried» by Gove's appointment.
If congressional Democrats
really care about the environment and addressing climate change, Moving America Forward, and putting Americans back to work, as they profess, they will soundly reject the Hoeven - Manchin bill or amendment.
They trend toward the hard sciences, are well educated, relatively wealthy,
often care about the environment, and have a tendency to have longer commutes that favor the high MPG of the VW diesels in the spreadsheets they use to evaluate car purchase options.