Politics and the Environment

If you voted for G.W. Bush, either
1) You are unaware of the information on this page
2) You are in denial of the information on this page (since it is factual and documentable)
3) You don't care about the environment and consider the information on this page a low priority
Perhaps you voted for Bush out of fear for the nation's security because, like 47% of the American public you may have been duped into believing that Iraq and Saddam Hussein played a part in the 9/11 attacks. How did that misconception happen? (...and the 9/11 perpetrator, Osama bin Laden remains free). You trust the president and want to support our troops. (Read a Republican's view of the war). Or maybe something to do with "Republican moral values" or "christian virtues?"
Who are the Bush voters? Bush supporters are clearly identified in this profile.

So, if you voted for Bush which of these categories do YOU fall into?

Read, follow the links, educate yourself, tell your friends, teach your children. The information is available and it is overwhelming.

Bush and the Republican National Committee get big donations from Timber Companies
In return for campaign contributions, timber companies are raping our forests under the guise of fire protection. The Bush administration plans to overturn a Clinton-era rule that made nearly 60 million acres of national forest off-limits to road-building and logging, setting aside one of the most sweeping land preservation measures in decades. This is part of the Bush "Healthy Forest Initiative" -a concentrated effort to decrease public involvement, reduce environmental protection and increase access to our National Forests and other federal lands for timber companies. It will do little or nothing to protect communities from fire.
Here are some of the details of Bush's payback to Timber Companies. This is how Republicans do business.
BREAKING NEWS: Judge declares Bush's easing of Forest Plan Illegal - A federal judge has concluded that the Bush administration broke environmental laws last year when it cleared the way for more commercial logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.
Chainsaws Tear Into Siskiyou Old-Growth

CLOSE TO HOME: Clearcutting our Cumberland Plateau. - Take action - - More on the endangered plateau
STOP THE NORTH SHORE ROAD from violating the largest stretch of mountain wilderness in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Republican Congressman Charles Taylor supports this catastrophic proposal.
TENNESSEE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS: Tennessee Environmental Council - - Dogwood Alliance - - Save our Cumberland Mountains - - Nature Conservancy - - Forest Watch - - Volunteers for a Clean TN

Bush and the Republican National Committee get big donations from the Coal Mining Industry
In return, Bush has rewritten a 25-year-old rule of the Clean Water Act, thus legalizing illegal valley fills so that coal mining companies can use Mountain Top Removal Mining. This horrible practice creates a huge amount of waste that fills valleys annihilating the ecosystem and polluting the watershed. A federal judge has twice ruled that most valley fills are illegal under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Bush Administration has reduced lawsuits by the EPA against major polluters by 90%.

Bush and the Republican National Committee get big donations from the nation's Top Polluting Industries
Since 1999, the 30 biggest utility companies owning the majority of the 89 dirtiest power plants have poured $6.6 million into the coffers of the Bush presidential campaigns and the Republican National Committee (RNC).
BOTTOM LINE: Bush has allowed the polluters to pollute more - payback for campaign contributions. This is how Republicans do business.
January 13, 2005: An interim report released by the National Academy of Sciences finds it unlikely that the Bush administration's so-called Clear Skies Initiative would control harmful air emissions at individual power plants as effectively as compliance with existing Clean Air Act requirements (p. 17).

Read about William Myers, mining lobbyist, anti-environmentalist, and Secretary of the Interior, Bush's judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit. He has never been a judge before nor has he ever participated in a jury trial.

Bush has gone to great lengths to distort and suppress scientific research showing the damage that his policies have done to the environment: - yes, This is how Republicans do business.
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking - Censoring Info on Air Quality
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking - Distorting Research on Climate Change
Nobel Award Winning Scientist Charges Bush with Distorting Research
Exxon Mobil with ties to Bush Administration attack Global Warming with junk science

The above is only the "tip of the iceberg."
Read more on the Bush Environmental Record.

Natural Resources Defense Council
Center for Cooperative Research
Independent Media
Bush vs. the Environment
THE BUSH RECORD- Sierra Club
The Bush Presidency.org
Friends of the Earth

What is America's public opinion on the Direction of the Nation? Are we on the right track or wrong track?
Here is a summary of several national polls
June 2005 - Bush's approval rating drops to new low

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