President Jimmy Carter?

Question

what did he do for the environment? be specific please!

Answer 1

Quite a bit. Here's one thing: Carter proposed and pushed for a policy of tax credits and other incentives to promote home insulation and energy comservation.

He also helped put through policies to increase over time the fuel efficiency of automobiles.

These innovations were short-lied, however. Most of the programs--which were making real progress toward making America energy independant, as well as helping the environment, were dismanteled or gutted under the Reagan/BushI administrations.

Answer 2

America kinda woke up after President Ford was seceded by a Plains, Georgia peanut farmer! President Carter popularized recycling as a positive first step towards ecological preservation of Earth, he doggedly monitored EPA progress in lowering auto emissions, and he was pro-solar power. He touched base a bit about the promise of Ethanol as an alternative fuel source--but was careful in the light of surrounding American Big Oil interests and lobbyists.

And it was likely poor guidance from ABO lobbyists that led to Carter's debacle of convincing OPEC to lift their iron-hand embargo.

30 years out of political office--Jimmy Carter is ever more a staunch advocate for environmental protection issues and a tireless spokesperson for Habitat for Humanity

Answer 3

Carter tried to stop Bush's energy disasters - 28 years ago.
He called for the nation's first solar bank and he had already started the national strategic petroleum reserve, birthed the gasohol and solar power industries, and helped insulate millions of homes and offices. But then came the Iran/Contra October Surprise, when the Reagan/Bush campaign allegedly promised the oil-rich mullahs of Iran that they'd sell them missiles and other weapons if only they'd keep our hostages until after the 1980 Carter/Reagan presidential election campaign was over. The result was that Carter, who had been leading in the polls over Reagan/Bush, steadily dropped in popularity as the hostage crisis dragged out, and lost the election. Reagan's first official acts of office included removing Jimmy Carter's solar panels from the roof of the White House, and reversing most of Carter's conservation and alternative energy policies.

Answer 4

Not much really, unless you count his botched attempt on getting oil during the OPEC embargo.

Answer 5

He jimmycarterized it! Schwing...

BTW my dad was in the army and met him once while he was stepping out of Air Force One.