Environmental Law

Environmentalists give Barack Obama a pass on oil spill - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com

By STEPHEN HOLZER

Last week, it seemed, environmentalists were finally ready to let loose on President Barack Obama over the Gulf oil spill.

Actress Q?orianka Kilcher chained herself to the White House fence while her mother slathered the ?Pocahontas? star in black paint meant to look like oozing crude.

Kilcher?s cause? Not the Gulf spill at all but oil-related abuses of indigenous people in Peru, whose president was visiting Obama that day. 

As the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history has played out on Obama?s watch, the environmental movement has essentially given him a pass ? all but refusing to unleash any vocal criticism against the president even as the public has grown more frustrated by Obama?s performance. 

via www.politico.com

If this had happened while George Bush was in ofice, the environmetnalists would be going nuts (well, more nuts than some of them already are). Can anyone say "double standard"?

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on June 12, 2010 (boomark / email).