Do You See Where They're Going With This? Part I

Bush Administration Accomplishments: Conservation & Environment

• removed protections for marine wildlife
  
• pulled the United States out of the Kyoto treaty to reduce global warming
  
• weakened the Clean Air Act
  
• closed the office dedicated to protecting the Everglades
  
• overturned mining regulations
  
• weakened rules on wetlands development
  
• weakened rules on industrial pollution
  
• blocked water cleanup rules
  
• suppressed an EPA report on global warming
  
• reopened mining on a proposed national monument
  
• reduced the protected habitats of endangered species
  
• shut down a federal program to build more fuel-efficient cars
  
• changed rules making it easier for timber companies to plunder national forests
  
• reversed the snowmobile ban in Yellowstone Park
  
• attacked logging rules under the guise of fire prevention
  
• attacked environmental protections of our oceans
  
• sabotaged court cases against polluters
  
• cut funds to clean up the environment
  
• tried to remove Yellowstone from a United Nations list protecting it
  
• changed rules so that lands can no longer gain wilderness protections without an act of Congress
  
• exempted oil and gas industries from clean water regulations
  
• opened the Tongass National Forest to logging
  
• delayed an EPA report on the dangers of mercury
  
• weakened "dolphin-safe tuna" regulations
  
• opened protected lands to road building
  
• overturned limits on mining waste sites
  
• reversed the 25-year-old policy of not selling lands polluted by PCBs
  
• withdrew the EPA's authority to regulate auto emissions
  
• cut the Energy Star program
  
• despite a campaign pledge to the contrary, decided not to make American factories reduce carbon dioxide emissions
  

Jim