"We're going to wage an all-out assault on those who pollute our air and our water and pollute the Chesapeake Bay," Gansler said during his midday swearing-in ceremony in the state Senate chamber in Annapolis.
Gansler said in an interview that he plans to bring an activist bent to the state's top legal job, modeling himself after former New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, whose campaign against corporate corruption propelled him into the governor's office.
With the environment as his top priority, Gansler said he stands by his campaign promise to assess the health of the state's waterways mile by mile, and he vowed to enforce air pollution guidelines governing the state's coal-fired power plants. And he said he would go a step further.
"I think we ought to reassess the levels that we permit of pollution," he said.
Emissions from the coal-fired power plants disproportionately affect poorer residents and African-Americans, Gansler said, calling enforcement "an environmental civil rights issue."
I got a better idea, why not he lobby for a bill that will outlaw coal fired plants or at least prohibit them to emit emissions at anything above trace level and outlaw enviromental racism? (In the case of the inclusion of people in poverty, I rather call it enviromental prejudice.) If he could do that the only thing he needs is Declaration of War against polluters.
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