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Whatever your beliefs, know what your president is doing

 

By: Dr. David A. Sprintzen - TrueFacts.co.uk

 

The First Six Months of George W. Bush: What the president is doing in

office

 

* Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered

crops.

 

* Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.

 

* Cut by 50% funding for research into renewable energy sources.

 

* Revoked rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic drinking

water.

 

* Proposed to eliminate new marine protections for the Channel Islands and

the

coral reefs of northwest Hawaii. San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2001

 

* Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and

trucks.

 

* Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to

deny

contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and

other

federal laws.

 

* OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to

state

officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil

and

gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting.

 

* Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high level Iran Contra figure -

to

the post of United Nations ambassador.

 

* Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest

conservation.

 

* Rescinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the

potential consequences resulting from chemical plant accidents.

 

* Suspended rules that would require hardrock miners to clean up sites on

Western public lands.

 

* Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages

farmers

to maintain wetlands habitat on their property.

 

* Appointed Otto Reich - an un-indicted high level Iran Contra figure-to

Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

 

* Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million.

 

* Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to get an animal

placed on the Endangered Species List.

 

* Rescinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency

regulations

for central air conditioners and heat pumps.

 

* Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and

safety.

 

* Abandoned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the waste gas

that contributes to global warming.

 

* Nominated David Lauriski - ex-mining company executive-to post of

Assistant

Secretary of Labour for Mine Safety and Health.

 

* O.K.'d Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go forth with a controversial

plan

to auction oil and gas development tracts off the coast eastern of Florida.

 

* Announced intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest

to

oil and drilling.

 

* Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which would

technically

allow oil and gas drilling " outside " of national monuments.

 

* Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate safeguards for

the environment and workers' rights.

 

* Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association in

recommendations for the federal judiciary appointments.

 

* Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior.

 

* Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

 

* Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen-led grizzly bear

re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wilderness.

 

* Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell research projects.

 

* Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah.

 

* Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to the wealthiest 1%

of

Americans.

 

* Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit

cards.

 

* Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of national

forest

from logging and road building.

 

* Eliminated funding for the " We the People " education program which taught

schoolchildren about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship.

 

* Nominated Linda Fisher - an executive with Monsanto-for the number two job

at

the Environmental Protection Agency.

 

* Canceled 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high mileage

cars.

 

* Nominated J. Steven Giles - an oil and coal lobbyist - for Deputy

Secretary

of the Interior.

 

* Nominated Bennett Raley - who advocates repealing the Endangered Species

Act - for Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.

 

* Nominated Ted Olson - who has repeatedly lied about his involvement with

the

Scaiffe-funded " Arkansas Project " to bring down Bill Clinton - for Solicitor

General.

 

* Proposes to ease permit process - including environmental considerations -

for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectric dam construction. Washington Post,

May

18,2001.

 

* Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding for alternative renewable energy

come

from selling oil and gas lease tracts in the Alaska National Wildlife

Reserve.

 

* Plans on serving genetically engineered foods at all official government

functions.

 

* Forced out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck and appointed a timber

industry

lobbyist

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Dr. David A. Sprintzen Professor of Philosophy

Co-Director, Institute for Sustainable Development

C.W. Post College Long Island University

720 Northern Boulevard

Brookville, NY 11548-1300

(516)299-3051

fax: (516) 299-4140

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