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next >>Environmental laws must not be overturned nor undermined. Public lands and waters are owned in common by all of the citizens of the United States. Losses in their quality must be reversed. All who care must be active and vocal to block efforts to weaken these laws. [Res. 1, 1995]
The Defense Department should observe all of this nation's laws to control pollution, should practice recycling, and avoid waste. [Res. 12, 1995]
Everyone who abuses the environment should have to steadily reduce and eliminate the burdens which they place on the environment. In this way, the state-of-the-art in pollution control should steadily improve. Polluters should not be able to buy their way out of compliance through purchasing reduction credits from others. In the field of water pollution, those immediately downstream may still suffer when this is done (because the reductions may be on other branches of the river system). Trading water pollution credits is not sound public policy. [Res.30, 2003]
States should not approve measures that require that land owners be compensated whenever environmental or land use regulations diminish the value of their property, nor that require regulators choose the alternative with the most minimal affect on land values. Such takings measures would badly hamper the progress of environmental regulation. [Res. 27, 1995]
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