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[[Image:1915b7ec753fa9d0352885dc23da4469.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The aftermath of the inauguration of [[Barack Obama]] on January 20, 2009: 100 tons of trash to clean up.]]

[[Image:1915b7ec753fa9d0352885dc23da4469.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The aftermath of the inauguration of [[Barack Obama]] on January 20, 2009: 100 tons of trash to clean up.]]

* Liberal [[immigration]] policies adopted in the United States due to the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, opened the floodgates to unsustainable population growth in the United States which continues to this day.  Had immigration levels been left at pre-1965 levels, U.S. population would have likely stabilized at around 240 million by now.  Instead it is over 300 million, and expected to reach 468 million by the year 2060,<ref>http://www.cis.org/impact_on_population.html</ref> mostly due to mass immigration.  The U.S. ecology cannot handle this rate of population growth.<ref>http://balance.org/alerts/alert122004.html</ref>

* Liberal [[immigration]] policies adopted in the United States due to the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, opened the floodgates to unsustainable population growth in the United States which continues to this day.  Had immigration levels been left at pre-1965 levels, U.S. population would have likely stabilized at around 240 million by now.  Instead it is over 300 million, and expected to reach 468 million by the year 2060,<ref>http://www.cis.org/impact_on_population.html</ref> mostly due to mass immigration.  The U.S. ecology cannot handle this rate of population growth.<ref>http://balance.org/alerts/alert122004.html</ref>

* Likewise, the ecology of U.S. National Parks and Monuments bordering [[Mexico]] has been trampled and is severely at risk from the [[illegal alien]]s coming into the U.S. who enter through those parks (such as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument).  Liberal environmental groups responded to this threat, not by supporting the [[The Secure the Fence Act of 2006|border fence]], but by filing lawsuits against the fence claiming it would disrupt [[animal]] habitats.  When in fact, the flood of illegal aliens already did disrupt those animal habitats.<ref>http://www.desertinvasion.us/</ref>

* Likewise, the ecology of U.S. National Parks and Monuments bordering [[Mexico]] has been trampled and is severely at risk from the [[illegal alien]]s coming into the U.S. who enter through those parks (such as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument).  Liberal environmental groups responded to this threat, not by supporting the [[border wall]], but by filing lawsuits against the fence claiming it would disrupt [[animal]] habitats.  When in fact, the flood of illegal aliens already did disrupt those animal habitats.<ref>http://www.desertinvasion.us/</ref>

* Liberal environmentalist demands for cleaner burning [[gasoline]] led to the addition of MTBE (methyl tert-butyl ether) into gasoline starting in 1979, with higher levels of MTBE mandated after 1992 to comply with the demands of the [[Clean Air Act]].  The leakage of MTBE from tens of thousands of storage tanks has contaminated tens of thousands of water wells throughout the U.S.  An even small release of MTBE can render a large supply of water unpotable.  MTBE was finally banned in some states in 2004-2005, but the damage has already been done.  The cost of environmental cleanup and lawsuits  from its use range upwards of $30 billion.

* Liberal environmentalist demands for cleaner burning [[gasoline]] led to the addition of MTBE (methyl tert-butyl ether) into gasoline starting in 1979, with higher levels of MTBE mandated after 1992 to comply with the demands of the [[Clean Air Act]].  The leakage of MTBE from tens of thousands of storage tanks has contaminated tens of thousands of water wells throughout the U.S.  An even small release of MTBE can render a large supply of water unpotable.  MTBE was finally banned in some states in 2004-2005, but the damage has already been done.  The cost of environmental cleanup and lawsuits  from its use range upwards of $30 billion.

* Liberal environmentalist opposition to [[logging]], including any [[selective logging]] at all, on public lands has caused an excessive fuel buildup in forests and wildlands.  While periodic [[fire]]s are a natural part of the ecology and most forest and grassland types are dependent on fire to one degree or another, the fires resulting from excessive fuel buildup are neither natural nor environmentally benign.  This buildup is thanks to the near-ban on logging in 1992 when a federal judge halted all logging in National Forests until the [[northern spotted owl]] could be protected, and the resulting [[William Jefferson Clinton|Clinton]] administration's forest policy which drastically cut logging in the National Forests.

* Liberal environmentalist opposition to [[logging]], including any [[selective logging]] at all, on public lands has caused an excessive fuel buildup in forests and wildlands.  While periodic [[fire]]s are a natural part of the ecology and most forest and grassland types are dependent on fire to one degree or another, the fires resulting from excessive fuel buildup are neither natural nor environmentally benign.  This buildup is thanks to the near-ban on logging in 1992 when a federal judge halted all logging in National Forests until the [[northern spotted owl]] could be protected, and the resulting [[William Jefferson Clinton|Clinton]] administration's forest policy which drastically cut logging in the National Forests.