NYT: Bush Record: New Priorities in Environment

[kskiska]

Every fall, after raising their young near Teshekpuk Lake and the Colville River, tens of thousands of geese and tundra swans leave the North Slope of Alaska for more southerly shores. Some end their journey at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in the flatlands of North Carolina.

Both habitats could be transformed if current Bush administration initiatives come to pass. The birds would have oil rigs as neighbors in Alaska and be greeted by Navy jets simulating carrier takeoffs and landings in North Carolina.

That such projects could bracket the birds' path is not surprising in light of the priorities of the administration. Over the last three and a half years, federal officials have accelerated resource development on public lands. They have also pushed to eliminate regulatory hurdles for military and industrial projects.

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The administration's approach has provoked a passionate response. Asked about his expectations in the event of President Bush's re-election, Senator James M. Jeffords, the Vermont independent who is the ranking minority member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote in an e-mail message: "I expect the Bush administration to continue their assault on regulations designed to protect public health and the environment. I expect the Bush administration to continue underfunding compliance and enforcement activities."

Mr. Jeffords concluded, "I expect the Bush administration will go down in history as the greatest disaster for public health and the environment in the history of the United States."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/14/politics/campaign/14enviro.html?hp

[BlueHandDuo]

1. Well all the good folks is gonna...

...be raptured up to Heaven any day now, and Jesus H. Christ on a Triscuit is gonna destroy the rest of the world hisself, ain't he? So ain't no need to try protectin' all that nature stuff.

Son, you gotta start thinkin' logically.

[Frances]

2. You sound as angry as I am

My husband watched GE (aka NBC) news tonight and there was a segment about a hunter who was going to vote for Bush because Bush would protect his right to have a gun.

I was so mad because I've been told that many hunters and fishermen are waking up to the fact that Bush is destroying their places to hunt and fish. But there wasn't any mention of that fact!

[baby_bear]

3. yes, lots of fishers are aware of the dangers

...overlogging federal and other lands here in the Pacific Northwest results in the diminution of salmon and other fish habitat.

I don't think their openmindedness has anything to do with the people who are anxious about gun rights, even though they may inhabit the same terrain, in this part of the country, and maybe especially in Idaho.

I recall that Frank Church (rest his beautiful soul) protected gun rights in order to continue to be a senator from Idaho.

s_m

[yardwork]

5. Kerry is a hunter

Kerry's record indicates strong protection for the right of hunters to keep their guns. Kerry is a hunter and fisher himself.

A lot of Americans really need to wake up. Their laziness is going to be the end of them and they're taking the rest of us down with them.

[Auntie Bush]

4. That was funny...I'm still snickerin

"Christ on a Triscuit" lol

[DeepModem Mom]

6. kick

[Bundbuster]

7. Best read on bushCorp's environmental assault

"Crimes Against Nature" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1120-01.htm