The New 2012 CEC Sustainability Requirements

The new Canadian Electrical Code (CEC) has incorporated the latest sustainability requirements for electrical professionals, as well as business and home owners. The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) 22nd edition of the CEC's mandatory guidelines include 180 important updates and revisions. CSA Standards is a leading standards-based solutions organization in Canada. The CEC addresses electrical safety, shock, and fire hazards of electrical products.

Republicans for Environmental Protection

Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), was founded in 1995 to resurrect the GOP's great conservation tradition and to restore natural resource conservation and sound environmental protection as fundamental elements of the Republican Party's vision for America.

REP are conservatives who share a deep concern for the environment.They know that a healthy environment and a sound economy are both essential to the nations prosperity. They believe that by working together, Americans can preserve the environment and develop the economy for current and future generations.

The REP shares common environmental priorities including heathy food, clean air and water. They recognize the importance of clean, efficient businesses and industries and they support strong, results-oriented enforcement of environmental laws.

REP would like to see funding of natural resource stewardship and environmental protection, protection of national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, wild lands and waters. They would also like to see effective legal protection for threatened and endangered plants and animals in their native habitats.

Despite the anti-science stance of many Republicans, national security issues and changing global markets will make climate change denial increasingly untenable.

When Republicans come to terms with the science on climate change, the REP illustrates that there is a ready-made ideological base for conservatives who adopt green values and concerns.


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GOP's Environmental Roots

Great GOP leaders of the past fought to save natural treasures, signed landmark environmental-protection laws, and established many of the environmental policies we take for granted today.

Teddy Roosevelt, established America's unmatched system of wildlife refuges and national parks. Barry Goldwater, was the father of conservatism, and a lifelong conservationist.

Richard Nixon understood the environment’s importance to the public. Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and also established the Environmental Protection Agency.

Ronald Reagan signed a treaty to protect the upper atmosphere’s protective ozone layer from chemical emissions in 1987. The treaty was the most significant international environmental agreement ever negotiated.

As Ronald Reagan said, “What is a conservative, after all, but one who conserves. We want to protect and conserve the land on which we live – our countryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and meadows and forests. This is our patrimony. This is what we leave to our children. And our great moral responsibility is to leave it better than we found it.”

The Bi-partisan efforts of previous decades succeeded in putting an end to environmental catastrophes like burning rivers, toxic waste dumps and DDT.

Modern day Republicans have no special exemption from polluted air and contaminated water. They would do well to remember the past and the environmental legacies of some of their finest leaders.


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