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Bush Receives "F" For Environmental Issues on LCV 2003 Presidential Report Card

Josh Galper or Dan Vicuña

League of Conservation Voters

 

Tuesday 24 June 2003

 

Report Says Bush Favors Corporate Interests Over the Public Interest When It Comes to Protecting America’s Air, Land and Water

 

WASHINGTON – League of Conservation Voters President Deb Callahan announced today that LCV gave President George W. Bush an "F" on the organization’s 2003 Report Card on the administration’s performance on environmental issues.

 

The Report Card, which focused on Bush’s performance from the beginning of his term through the midway point, calculated the failing grade by taking into account a number of factors, including appointments, administrative and executive actions, and legislative initiatives.

 

LCV is the leading, nonpartisan political voice of the national environmental movement, and it periodically issues a report card on the performance of the president, both Democratic and Republican alike.

 

"President Bush is well on his way to compiling the worst environmental record of any president in the history of our nation," said Callahan. "Bush’s dismal Report Card is dominated by a disturbing trend: time after time, Bush favors corporate interests over the public’s interest in a clean, safe and healthy environment. Under the Bush administration, corporate polluters have been allowed to write the laws."

 

The Report Card found that, since taking office, Bush has assaulted environmental protections on all fronts, including air, water, land and wildlife. In particular, the Bush administration has attacked, weakened or undermined laws providing clean air, clean water, and toxic waste cleanups. Primary beneficiaries of these actions have been timber, mining, oil and gas, and real estate development companies.

 

The Bush administration has waged this campaign through funding cuts, arcane procedural methods, and deceptive rhetoric to advance its anti-environment, pro-corporate agenda, according to the Report Card.

 

For example, the Bush administration has cut enforcement for key environmental programs through steadily slashing budgets. Consequently, environmental laws that should otherwise be enforced by the Bush administration lie dormant on the books for lack of funding.

 

In the case of toxic waste, for example, the Bush administration has opposed requiring polluters to clean up their own messes at toxic waste sites – unlike Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. In fact, Bush has begun to use taxpayer money to pay for the mess of corporate polluters and to cut back overall on cleaning up existing sites.

 

The Bush administration has also targeted a series of complex regulations that barely register on the American public’s radar screen to drastically reduce clean air and water protections, and increase industry exploitation of public lands, the Report Card reveals.

 

The administration has proposed regulatory changes, for example, to weaken a significant provision of the Clean Air Act called "new source review," which currently requires older, more polluting industrial plants to upgrade pollution controls when they renovate or expand in such a way that increases emissions of pollutants.

 

Meanwhile, fraudulently named legislation has become the norm. In 2002, Bush proposed the "Clear Skies" initiative, which would weaken public health protections of the current Clean Air Act, while replacing them with insufficient standards and actually increasing toxic emissions like mercury and sulfur.

 

Another initiative, the so-called "Healthy Forests" proposal, would open up 20 million acres of national forests to logging and waive environmental laws.

 

 

LCV, a nonpartisan organization, is the political voice of the national environmental movement and the only organization devoted full-time to shaping a pro-environment White House and Congress. LCV runs tough and effective campaigns to defeat anti-environment candidates and supports leaders who stand up for a clean, healthy future for America.

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Bush Receives " F " For Environmental Issues on LCV 2003 Presidential Report

Card

Josh Galper or Dan Vicuña

League of Conservation Voters

 

Tuesday 24 June 2003

 

Report Says Bush Favors Corporate Interests Over the Public Interest When

It

Comes to Protecting America’s Air, Land and Water

 

WASHINGTON – League of Conservation Voters President Deb Callahan

announced

today that LCV gave President George W. Bush an " F " on the organization’s

2003

Report Card on the administration’s performance on environmental issues.

 

The Report Card, which focused on Bush’s performance from the beginning of

his term through the midway point, calculated the failing grade by taking

into

account a number of factors, including appointments, administrative and

executive actions, and legislative initiatives.

 

LCV is the leading, nonpartisan political voice of the national

environmental

movement, and it periodically issues a report card on the performance of the

president, both Democratic and Republican alike.

 

" President Bush is well on his way to compiling the worst environmental

record of any president in the history of our nation, " said Callahan.

" Bush’s

dismal Report Card is dominated by a disturbing trend: time after time, Bush

favors

corporate interests over the public’s interest in a clean, safe and

healthy

environment. Under the Bush administration, corporate polluters have been

allowed to write the laws. "

 

The Report Card found that, since taking office, Bush has assaulted

environmental protections on all fronts, including air, water, land and

wildlife. In

particular, the Bush administration has attacked, weakened or undermined

laws

providing clean air, clean water, and toxic waste cleanups. Primary

beneficiaries of these actions have been timber, mining, oil and gas, and

real estate

development companies.

 

The Bush administration has waged this campaign through funding cuts,

arcane

procedural methods, and deceptive rhetoric to advance its anti-environment,

pro-corporate agenda, according to the Report Card.

 

For example, the Bush administration has cut enforcement for key

environmental programs through steadily slashing budgets. Consequently,

environmental laws

that should otherwise be enforced by the Bush administration lie dormant on

the books for lack of funding.

 

In the case of toxic waste, for example, the Bush administration has

opposed

requiring polluters to clean up their own messes at toxic waste sites –

unlike Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. In fact,

Bush

has begun to use taxpayer money to pay for the mess of corporate polluters

and

to cut back overall on cleaning up existing sites.

 

The Bush administration has also targeted a series of complex regulations

that barely register on the American public’s radar screen to drastically

reduce

clean air and water protections, and increase industry exploitation of

public

lands, the Report Card reveals.

 

The administration has proposed regulatory changes, for example, to weaken a

significant provision of the Clean Air Act called " new source review, " which

currently requires older, more polluting industrial plants to upgrade

pollution

controls when they renovate or expand in such a way that increases emissions

of pollutants.

 

Meanwhile, fraudulently named legislation has become the norm. In 2002, Bush

proposed the " Clear Skies " initiative, which would weaken public health

protections of the current Clean Air Act, while replacing them with

insufficient

standards and actually increasing toxic emissions like mercury and sulfur.

 

Another initiative, the so-called " Healthy Forests " proposal, would open up

20 million acres of national forests to logging and waive environmental

laws.

 

 

> LCV, a nonpartisan organization, is the political voice of the national

> environmental movement and the only organization devoted full-time to

shaping a

> pro-environment White House and Congress. LCV runs tough and effective

> campaigns to defeat anti-environment candidates and supports leaders who

stand up

> for a clean, healthy future for America.

>

>

 

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> Well, let's flunk him out of the presidency.

 

 

 

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