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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
Ed Rendell
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Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
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Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
Ed Rendell
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
Ed Rendell
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
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Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
Ed Rendell
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One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
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