President Clinton’s policies on Civil rights helped him a great President. President Clinton promised open …show more content…
Bill Clinton began his presidency with an outspoken commitment to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emission in an to address climate change. He said that climate change was a global strategic threat that required bold leadership and, in his first Earth Day address, promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. (“Clintons Environmental Legacy”). Clinton used executive power to order one third of national forest land. This move, which covered more than 58 million acres in 39 states, protected all remaining national forest land that had not already been developed or granted permanent protection as a wilderness area, including the Tonga’s National Forest in Alaska. Clinton faced an aggressive and hostile congress that worked constantly. In his last years of office, he used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to place over 3 million acres of federal land off-limits to development by declaring them "national monuments." These areas include Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante, Arizona's Grand-Canyon-Prashant and California's Pinnacles. With these actions, Clinton set aside more acreage under the Act than Theodore Roosevelt, the first president to take advantage of the Act and the one most credited with establishing the U.S. system of federal land protection. In addition to his stance on Environment, president Clinton was a great leader because of his ideas regarding homeland