A little help please for my daughter's report on bush environment failures

[panader0]

She is a sophmore in H.S. (#3 in her class) and has to write a report on the environment. Partly because of my anti-bush rants, she choose to write about the negative effects on the environment that were caused by the current administration. I told her that if anybody knows the facts, it will be my comrades on DU. So, anyone have any links? Where should she look for info? Thanks in advance.

[mcscajun]

1. Have her start with a search on the Clear Skies Act

That should get her rolling.

[XemaSab]

3. rolling on to arsenic in the drinking water, healthy forests, and julie macdonald

Also look for oil and gas leases on blm land.

[rawtribe]

2. Grist is a good site

http://grist.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?query=bush

[peace13]

4. I believe that there have been changes in the mining industry

laws as well. Peace, Kim

[XemaSab]

5. oh, and who could forget

trying to exempt the military from environmental laws?

[rocktivity]

6. You forgot global warming!

Go find Al Gore's website for the inconvenient truth, and the Rethugs war on it.

:headbang:
rocknation

[wtmusic]

7. Google Christine Todd Whitman -- Castrator General of the EPA nt

[eppur_se_muova]

8. "Bush Versus the Environment" by Robert Devine (2004)

Although it's a few years old, it's anything but outdated. If anything, the last four years have just been more of the same. A good report could start by organizing material under the headings he chose for his chapters.

also "The Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney, which has its own Web site, with updates and a blog http://www.waronscience.com/home.php

[mtnsnake]

9. Bush has rolled back many of Bill Clinton's laws to protect the environment, some very critical

to our national parks and federal lands.

For example, just before leaving office, Bill Clinton got crucial conservation legislation passed to protect our country's pristine roadless areas and from things such as loggin and mining, etc. It was one of the most significant bills to protect our last remaining wildlands and national forests.

As soon as Bush came into power, he promised to repeal this bill and he did. Thanks to Bush, our only remaining wildlands are once again shrinking, and the streams and lakes within those wildlands are becoming polluted at an alarming rate from runoff from strip mining and other industrial crimes by big corporations who don't give a rat's ass about our forests or the wildlife that lives within them.

Here's the legislation Clinton got passed: http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/news010501e.htm

Here is what Bush did to that legislation upon taking over: http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/050505.asp

Have your daughter read those two articles. I think it will give her a good start.

[XemaSab]

10. ANWR

n/t

[tom_paine]

11. A BIG one: Post-9/11, Bushies tell EPA to lie to New Yorkers that air quality is A-OK

It not only illustrates the Bushies' environmental failures, but also how they disdain the people/peasants they rule.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Bush+EPA+%22air+quality%22+%22New+York%22+lied

Even though this isn't one of his big environmental failures (and remember, tothe Bushies, environmental failures are successess if they can steal some money or fool some people), it is a very illustrative example of what the Bushies are...monsters.

[peace13]

12. Hot off of the press!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3194570

[Traditional Liberal]

13. List of EPA Issues

1. Clean Air Mercury Rule - just days ago, vacated.

2. Chertoff uses Real ID Act to waive environmental protection laws to build border fence

3. Clear Skies was never enacted, but was an attempt to subvert NSR

4. State of Massachusets vs. EPA

5. Congressional and Administration refusal to re-authorize taxes for Superfund Trust Account

6. Steven Johnson's refusal to grant a waiver for California to set more stringent vehicle emission standards, just a month ago. Go to Senate EPW for statements on that.

7. 9th Circuit Court ruling against National Traffic Safety Administration, http://ag.ca.gov/globalwarming/pdf/CAFE_Litigation_9th_Circuit_Decision_2007.pdf

8. Pending decision on NAAQS for ozone--administration proposed ozone limits far above recommendation from CAA Advisory Committee