The jobs we do, the prosperity we build, the environment we protect, the security that we seek -- all of these things are shared.

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Through giving to those in need, all Americans can lift up their communities while helping protect the environment we share.

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Certainly everyone wants to recycle waste, and protect the environment, but we are limited by the lack of a viable systematic approach.

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"What we have been working on is a plan which will protect our environment and at the same time help us to develop a thriving tourist industry which is absolutely vital to the Tendring economy, " he said.

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First and foremost, we must lead at home, where Americans' unrivaled ability to drive economic growth through innovation can protect the environment and create jobs.

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Namely, beyond foregoing the obvious benefits that come from value-added processing such as refining (gasoline sells a lot more per gallon than the cost of a gallon of crude oil), we are incurring secondary costs that impact, in part, the very environment that radical environmentalists are trying to protect.

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