Elizabeth Warren Slams Big Oil, Says Major Companies Profit From Pollution

[RiverLover]

Elizabeth Warren Slams Big Oil, Says Major Companies Profit From Pollution
4/12/15

April 13, 2015 Elizabeth Warren highlighted the threat of climate change and called for regulations to rein in corporate polluters during a speech Monday delivered to an audience of climate and labor activists at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Washington.

"A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs," Warren said. "But regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air."

Warren warned that if corporations are not properly policed, the cost of doing business will be borne by "children who can't drink the water."

The senator also slammed major oil companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips for pulling in "combined profits of 90 billion dollars" in 2014 while the industry "sucked down $5 billion in subsidies from the American people."

Warren called for an end to tax loopholes and subsidies that benefit mega-corporations, saying that those billions should be used for investment in infrastructure, education, and "scientific research that could lead to energy breakthroughs."

...Many progressive environmentalists believe Warren would be a better candidate than Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic nomination—so much so that Ready for Warren, a group pushing Warren to make a presidential run, plans to launch "Environmental Activists for Warren" this month.

Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune called Warren a "strong voice for tackling the climate crisis" ahead of her speech on Monday....

http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/elizabeth-warren-slams-big-oil-says-major-companies-profit-from-pollution-20150413

[djean111]

1. And, somewhere, someone is telling Third Wayers to shut her up.

[RiverLover]

2. People might realize what the term "Liberal" actually means if they don't shut her up.

And that could could hurt their planet-killing, immoral, massive profit margins. Lords & serfs must continue!!!

[Scuba]

3. Kick for EW. Why don't other leading Democrats embrace these same values? Can we expect ...

... Hillary to say something like this anytime soon?

[djean111]

4. Never. Really. Never.

The only liberal or Populist things she will ever utter will be campaign blather.
I fully expect some form of Thatcherism, if Hillary is elected.

[Scuba]

5. Hillary Thatcher? Hmmmm.

[djean111]

6. Thatcherism is really Third Way stuff. Privatization, extreme nationalism, free trade,

tax cuts, lowering public expenditure, self help (yer own yer own). Seeds of it with Bill's welfare reforms. Neo Larry Summers would have loved Margaret Thatcher.

The closest Hillary will come to liberalism is neoliberalism - DEFINITION of 'Neoliberalism' An approach to economics and social studies in which control of economic factors is shifted from the public sector to the private sector.

[MisterP]

10. SAY? she probably will: it's just her established record, donors, and doctrines that worry everyone

[handmade34]

7. called external costs...

and we taxpayers cover it for the big guys... been ranting about this for years

[Enthusiast]

8. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[libodem]

9. Hence the Climate Change Denial

Go fucking figure.