PANUPS: Resource Pointer #388 (Environmental Report Cards)

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PANUPS: Resource Pointer #388 (Environmental Report Cards)

 

Resource Pointer #388 (Environmental Report Cards for the Bush

Administration)

June 21, 2005

 

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate

publishers and organizations directly.

 

*America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? 2005*

Harvey Blatt. Focuses on the environmental issues of greatest concern

to U.S. voters and presents current science on water and air quality,

energy, climate change and ozone depletion in a lively, conversational

style. Also describes policies and programs for environmental

protection. 277 pages. $27.95. Contact MIT Press, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, Five Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142;

phone (800) 405-1619; fax (800) 406-9145; website

http://mitpress.mit.edu/; email mitpress-orders.

 

*The Bush Regulatory Record: A Pattern of Failure, 2004* Robert Shull

and Genevieve Smith. Discusses ways in which the Bush administration

has eliminated and weakened safeguards for public health and the

environmental. Looks at the performance of four agencies tasked with

protecting the public interest: the Environmental Protection Agency,

the Food and Drug Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Contact OMB Watch, 1742 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20009;

60 pages; Available as a free download at

http://www.ombwatch.org/article/archive/263; phone (202) 234-8494; fax

(202) 234-8584; website http://www.ombwatch.org/.

 

*Special Interest Takeover: The Bush Administration and the

Dismantling of Public Safeguards, 2004* The Center for American

Progress & OMB Watch for The Citizens for Sensible Safeguards

Coalition. Documents administration efforts to roll back regulations

protecting public health, safety, civil rights and the environment.

145 pages. Available as a free download at

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF & b=82002.

Contact Center for American Progress, 1333 H Street, NW, 10th Floor,

Washington, D.C. 20005; phone (202) 682-1611; email

progress; website http://www.americanprogress.org.

 

*Bush Greenwatch: Tracking the Bush Administration's Environmental

Misdeeds, Website* http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/. Provides timely

information on the Bush Administration's regulatory and legislative

initiatives that impact the environment and public health. Seeks to

expand media coverage and public awareness of the health and

environmental outcomes of the administration's anti-environmental and

pro-business agenda. Contact email info.

 

*Sierra Club RAW: the Uncooked Facts of the Bush Assault on the

Environment, Email newsletter*

http://www.sierraclub.org/raw/.asp. An e-newsletter sent

twice a week providing current news on the Bush administration's

environmental actions. Contact The Sierra Club, 85 Second Street, 2nd

Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105; phone (415) 977-5500; fax (415)

977-5799; email information; website

http://www.sierraclub.org/.

 

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