What A Guy

The Bush Administration is allowing domestic corporations to destroy our environment at an alarming pace. Here is a very small sampling that he and his corrupt administration has done to further destroy the environment and thus the future of our children and grandchildren:

Suspended the right-to-know regulation requiring utilities to inform consumers about arsenic in their water.
Cut 200 positions from the EPA’s enforcement division.
Killed funds to support environmental education in public schools.
Altered rules so the Energy Dept. no longer has to prove that Yucca Mountain is geologically safe for storing nuclear waste.
Announced mining rules stating that the Dept. of the Interior can’t deny a corporation’s permit, even if its mining could result in substantial irreparable harm.
Relaxed nationwide permit rules for coal companies, developers, and others who now can fill in thousands of streams, swamps, and other wetlands, without public notice or comment. (We all know about the destruction of the wetlands surrounding New Orleans and the cataclysmic consequences of that action when Katrina roared through.)
Sent a lobbyist of the country’s largest utility polluter to testify before Congress and defend cuts in the EPA’s enforcement budget.
Tried to end the federal requirement that states test poor children on Medicaid for lead poisoning.
Eliminated scientific committees that disagreed with his policies, stacking new committees with scientists who have ties to regulated industries, including one PG&E hireling who fought Eric Brockovich.
Sided with America’s largest cat litter manufacturer, Oil-Dri, against local officials in Reno, Nevada, who had ruled that a proposed cat litter mine would pollute the air and water.
Instructed the EPA to discount by 63% the value of lives of senior citizens when assessing whether to impose new restrictions on industries that pollute the air.
Sent memo to all EPA employees urging them to “express support for the president and his programs,” when off duty.
Put industry-backed amendment into Homeland Security Bill that effectively exempts chemical plants, utilities, and other polluters from the public’s right-to-know laws, which require corporations to tell their neighbors what poisons are being spewed on them.
Bush called the Constitution, and I quote, “Just a goddamn piece of paper."