The Real Al Gore on the Environment

• General
  • Gore's Broken Promises - Getting Tough on Environmental Crime
  • Clinton-Gore have done more damage to the environment in their first 4 years than Reagan and Bush did in their combined 12 years (by David Brower)

• Avid Supporter of Corporate Globalization (NAFTA, GATT, WTO, IMF, FTAA, etc.)
  • NAFTA & food corporations
  • Forest impacts from the WTO and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
  • See also The Real Al Gore on Labor
  • Making Sense Out of the WTO (Clinton/Gore filed on behalf of Chiquita before WTO)
  • The WTO and Free Trade (Both major political parties are dominated by global free trade advocates)
    The electronics giants don't even have to fight this battle themselves -- the free trade enthusiasts within the U.S. government, led by environmentalist Al Gore, are fighting it for them. For corporations, "global free trade" as embodied in the WTO is a dream come true.
  • The WTO Turns Back the Clock Clinton/Gore use WTO to fight Europe's ban on meat treated with cancer-causing hormones, Denmark ban of 200 lead compounds, the European Union's ban on lead, mercury and cadmium in electronic devices, and the European Union's law requiring food containing genetically modified organisms to be labeled.
  • Corporate Rights vs. Human Need Gore using WTO to pressure South Africa to repeal its Medicines Law

• Global Warming (Gore promotes coal, nukes, oil & incineration)
  Gore and Clinton's position on climate change was to make sure that the Kyoto agreement doesn't call for more than a 5% reduction in fossil fuel use despite the fact that all credible scientists say a 70% reduction is necessary to avoid irreversible climate change.
  • Clinton-Gore administration & Lieberman support nuclear power as a solution to global warming
  • Action Alert on Clinton-Gore promotion of Nukes in Kyoto Climate Agreement
  • Clinton-Gore Do Oil Industry Bidding at Kyoto Talks
  • Gore sells out on Kyoto, promotes nukes, favors oil exploration, does nothing on fuel efficiency standards, fails to promote clean renewables, and supports "clean coal" subsidies (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Gore's Broken Promises - Raising Fuel Efficiency Standards
  • Clinton-Gore Administration Promotes Incineration as Renewable Energy

• Oil & Gas Drilling:
  • Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate
  • Did Taxpayers Lose on Deal For Oil Field? -- 1997 Sale Was Part of Al Gore's 'Reinventing Government'
  • How the Gores, Father and Son, Helped Their Patron Occidental Petroleum
  • Gore Connections to Occidental Petroleum
  • Rainforest Action Network's Campaign to save the U'wa from Oxy and Gore
  • When Polluters Challenge, Al Gore Backs Down (drilling on California coast and more by Jim Hightower)
  • Oil Exploration (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Al Reinvented (giveaways of oil fields in Alaska to Arco)
  • Bought and paid for: Gore's oily family friends... (part 2)
  • Gore & Occidental (interview with Charles Lewis, Founder, Center for Public Integrity)
  • Gore assists Occidental and Arco get oil reserves

• Nuclear power / weapons
  • Gore Signs Plutonium Pact With Russia (risking transportation and reactor accidents, creating more nuclear waste and increasing nuclear weapons proliferation risks)
  • Al Gore: Friend of Corporate America (Molten Metal nuclear reprocessing)
  • Uranium Deal Helps Benefactors, But Costs Taxpayers $2.1 Billion
  • Nuke Comeback
  • See also The Real Al Gore on the military (pro-nuke missiles)

• WTI: The nation's largest hazardous waste incinerator (East Liverpool, Ohio)
  • Al Gore's First Broken Promise: The Legacy of WTI
  • Still Fuming (Washington Post)
  • Nader Incinerates Gore in East Liverpool Visit (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  • Integrity in the Balance: Al Gore's Record On the Environment
  • When Polluters Challenge, Al Gore Backs Down (Jim Hightower)
  • WTI Sell Out (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Gore's Broken Promises - Closing the East Liverpool Incinerator

• Toxics
  • Ag report critical of Gore record (Pesticides)
  • Backtracked on chlorine-free paper (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Blocked the phase-out of ozone-depleting pesticide, Methyl Bromide (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Clinton-Gore administration signs bill to allow cancer-causing pesticides or ingredients in food (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Drug spraying in Colombia / Untested Fungal Pathogen being used

• Logging
  • Logging / Grazing / Mining on Public Lands (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)

• Sprawl:
  • Gore Sells Out to New Jersey Sprawl Mall
  • When Polluters Challenge, Al Gore Backs Down (sell out of Everglades and NJ wetlands by Jim Hightower)
  • Failure to Protect Wetlands (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Developing the Everglades (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)

• Oceans:
  • Sell out on Commercial Whaling (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Gore opposed dolphin-safe tuna for NAFTA's sake (search for "Wouldn't you think Dolphins")

• Zinc Mining on Gore's Tennessee property:
  • How the Gores, Father and Son, Helped Their Patron Occidental Petroleum (Occidental Minerals involved in mining zinc ore near the Gore farm in Smith County, Tenn.)
  • Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner (Wall Street Journal)
  • GorePollution.com (Republican website with source documentation on mining violations on Gore's property)
  • Bought and paid for (Salon article covers the Gore-Oxy mining connection)

• Gore's Friends:
  • Flacking for Gore -- Katie's New Gig (Katie McGinty's ties to polluting corporations)
  • 66 Corporations that Have Contributed At Least $50,000 to Both Bush and Gore

• Biodiversity: Gore and Clinton have continually REFUSED to sign the biosafety protocol which would protect public health and biodiversity, among other things.

• Dams:
  • Gore supported Tennessee Valley Authority's dam projects, including the Tellico Dam, where he was willing to threaten the endangered snail darter, weakening the Endangered Species Act.
  • "Dems Frantic About Nader" (mentions support of TVA/Tellico)
  • Celebrity Politics (the "environmental" section of this Counterpunch article mentions Gore's refusal to support breaching of the Snake River dams)

• Biotechnology
  • Dairy Education Board Letter Michael Taylor, Monsanto's attorney turned FDA and USDA employee is a first cousin to Al Gore's wife, Tipper. (see point #11)
  • Monsanto's Genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone approve by Clinton-Gore administration (Nader's Open Letter to Environmentalists)
  • Monsanto Executives for Gore
  • The Bad Seed The Clinton/Gore administration has been aggressively helping Monsanto promote ag-biotech, bypassing U.S. health and safety regulations to promote new, untested gene-altered products.
  • Biotech in Trouble - Part 1, Part 2
    
  • Genetically Altering the World's Food
    "When the French were reluctant to allow Monsanto's seeds to sprout on French soil, Secretary of State Madeline Albright and U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshevsky intervened on Monsanto's behalf. When the French still refused to yield, President Clinton personally took up the matter with French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and gave him "an earful," Lambrecht writes. When that didn't work, Vice-President Gore followed up with a phone call to the French Prime Minister. Ultimately, the French gave in to the steady, high-level pressure."

Last modified: 2 November 2000

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