Joe Biden biography by Jules Witcover: on Environment


Barbara Boxer: 1989: Dolphin-Safe Tuna bill, against ocean-sweeping nets

Barbara Boxer of California, subsequently a senator, who shared that concern and took Ashley onto the House floor, where she pleaded with other Biden's daughter, Ashley, recalled often telling her father, "we have to save these dolphins. They're getting caught in these giant ocean floor-sweeping tuna nets." Her father introduced her to the then congresswoman Biden's daughter said. "I still call her the Dolphin Lady. And that was when I realized I could be a change agent." House members to do something about what she saw as an offensive act of abuse. "Out of it came, not just because of me but because of Barbara Boxer and others, the Dolphin-Safe Tuna bill,"
Source: A Life of Trial & Redemption, by Jules Witcover, p.309-310 Oct 5, 2010

Joe Biden: 1970s: Push to prohibit refineries, to protect state beaches

In the 1970s, when Shell Oil bought up more than five thousand acres of shore property near the town of Delaware City, just south of New Castle, with plans to build a new refinery, he raised concerns about raw sewage and other population threats. While he favored job creation opportunities, he was in no mood to approve corporate free rides. "Let Shell prove to us they won't ruin our environment," he would say, and if the oil giant couldn't do so, "we'll rezone them right out of here." He introduced a rezoning ordinance aimed at blocking another refinery on farmland at Smyrna, farther south, but at the same time called for a hearing delay until Sell could mount its own case for the project. A council staff member recalled that "a lot of his opposition led to enactment of a state law prohibiting having industrial development including refineries," to protect Delaware's beaches, a major tourist attraction.
Source: A Life of Trial & Redemption, by Jules Witcover, p. 62 Oct 5, 2010

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