Crimes Against Nature

Crimes Against Nature

Bush is sabotaging the laws that have protected America's
environment for more than thirty years

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst
environmental president. In a ferocious three-year attack, the
Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks
of America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of
our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife. Cloaked in
meticulously crafted language designed to deceive the public,
the administration intends to eliminate the nation's most important
environmental laws by the end of the year. Under the guidance
of Republican pollster Frank Luntz, the Bush White House has
actively hidden its anti-environmental program behind deceptive
rhetoric, telegenic spokespeople, secrecy and the intimidation
of scientists and bureaucrats. The Bush attack was not entirely
unexpected. George W. Bush had the grimmest environmental
record of any governor during his tenure in Texas. Texas became
number one in air and water pollution and in the release of toxic
chemicals. In his six years in Austin, he championed a short-term
pollution-based prosperity, which enriched his political contributors
and corporate cronies by lowering the quality of life for everyone
else. Now President Bush is set to do the same to America. After
three years, his policies are already bearing fruit, diminishing
standards of living for millions of Americans.
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