It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. Dan Quayle
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Miscellaneous News
- Bush's Record on the Environment
Natural Resources Defense Council
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Politics as unusual
Debunking the rightwing anti-envirionment myths
- EPA Imposes Illegal Gag Rule on its Employees
BushGreenwatch, 27 September 2004
- EPA Wording Found to Mirror Industry's
Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, 22 September 2004
- U.S. Blocking Arctic Report
Scripps Howard (in Truthout), 16 September 2004
- EPA Sued for Illegally Taking Direction from Chemical Industry Group
press release, EarthJustice, 15 January 2004
- 3 Top Enforcement Officials Say They Will Leave E.P.A.
Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times, 6 January 2004
- Bush has said his environmental strategies won't harm nature or man—a claim some doubt
Julie Deardorff, Chicago Tribune, 19 December 2003
- Scientists pulled from Missouri river project
Chicago Tribune, 6 November 2003
- White House Removes Climate Change Data from Report by the E.P.A.
Andrew C. Revkin with Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 19 June 2003
- Senate Panel Says White House May Have Acted Illegally
Cat Lazaroff, Albion Monitor, 24 October 2002
- Senate Panel Assails Bush's Environmental Record
Eric Pianin, Washington Post, 25 October 2002
- How Bush Spent His Summer Vacation -- Undermining Environmental Protections
Robert Perks, Natural Resources Defense Council, in Truthout, 6 September 2002
- Former EPA Chief Says Bush Anti-Pollution Plan Will Produce Dirtier Air
H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press (in Truthout), 4 August 2002
- Flooding in Appalachia Stirs Outrage Over a Mining Method
Francis X. Clines, New York Times, 12 August 2002
- Why I quit Bush's EPA
Eric Schaeffer, Washington Monthly, July/August 2002
- Senior environment officials hushed
Elizabeth Shogren, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 3 June 2002
- White House Ends Environmental Fellowship
New York Times, 13 April 2002
- Top E.P.A. Official Quits, Criticizing Bush's Policies
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 1 March 2002
- Environmentalists take aim at Bush record
Tom Kenworthy and Traci Watson, USA Today, 24 January 2002
- More Environmental Rollbacks
editorial, New York Times, 29 October 2001
- All of Bush's appointees to environmental positions are anti-environmentalists
editorial, New York Times, 19 August 2001
- No Affinity for Trees, but a Nature Crusader Nonetheless
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 2 July 2001
- Environmental Reversals Shake Moderate Republicans
Robin Toner, New York Times, 4 April 2001
- US public backs green line
Julian Borger, The Guardian, 30 March 2001
Commentary
- Fuel For the Anti-Bush Fire
John Passacantando, AlterNet, 5 September 2002
- How true are claims that President George Bush is bad for the health of the planet?
Polly Ghazi, The Guardian, 16 May 2001
- Bush vs. the American Landscape
Robert Redford, New York Times, 23 May 2001
- Nature's enemy
editorial, The Guardian, 25 March 2001
- Bush declares war on environment
Bill Press, CNN, 23 March 2001
Congressional Actions
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Coalition unveils giant photomontage urging Senate to protect ANWR
press release, American Liberal, November 2001
- Arctic drilling deal fails in Senate
CNN, 15 April 2002
- Norton breaks law by using lobbyists' video in Interior web site to promote ANWR drilling
Don Van Natta Jr., New York Times, 12 April 2002
- ANWR and Peas
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 15 March 2002
- Talk of New Drilling Raises Doubts on Alaska Pipeline
Sam Howe Verhovek, New York Times, 11 March 2002
- Oil companies might pass on Arctic drilling
Neela Banerjee, New York Times (in the San Francisco Chronicle), 10 March 2002
- Oil Industry Hesitates Over Moving Into Arctic Refuge
Neela Banerjee, New York Times, 10 March 2002
- Fish & Wildlife Service employees told not to talk publicly about ANWR
Elizabeth Manning, Anchorage Daily News, 6 March 2002
- Two Thousand Acres
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 1 March 2002
- Bush May Scale Back Alaska Drilling Plan
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 26 February 2002
- Drilling the Arctic won't create a significant number of jobs
Natural Resources Defense Council2 November 2001
- Arctic drilling bill's caps on development size are misleading
Ben Spiess and Liz Ruskin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12 November 2001
- Oil Drilling in Arctic Called Departure From Past Policy
Matthew L. Wald, New York Times, 12 November 2001
- Norton lied about calving patterns to promote drilling in the ANWR
Jon Margolis, High Country News, 5 November 2001
- Fight Over Arctic Refuge Intensifies
Danielle Knight, CommonDreams, 18 October 2001
- Holes Seen in Job Estimates for Alaska Drilling
Steven Greenhouse, New York Times, 2 September 2001
- GOP used fraudulent numbers to get ANWR drilling approved by House
Douglas Waller, Time, 21 August 2001
- Bush pushes to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling
USA Today, 14 June 2001
- Republicans' budget plans assume no income from arctic drilling
Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, 22 March 2001
- Clashing Opinions at Meeting on Alaska Drilling
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 10 January 2001
Endangered Species
- Bush Eases Pesticide Reviews for Endangered Species
Associated Press (in Truthout), 29 July 2004
- Endangered Species Act's Protections Trimmed Back
Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, 3 July 2004
- Scientists Seek to Add 225 Species to Endangered List
Associated Press (in Truthout), 5 May 2004
- U.S. Accused of Cooking Florida Panther Data
Associated Press (in Truthout), 3 May 2004
- Hatchery Salmon to Count as Wildlife
Blaine Harden, Washington Post, 29 April 2004
- Global Warming Found to Displace Species
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 2 January 2003
- Lynx, Lies, and Media Hype
Ted Williams, Audubon Magazine, May 2002
- Decision to Divert Klamath River to Irrigation Causes Massive Fish Kill
Timothy Egan, New York Times (in Truthout), 30 September 2002
- U.S. Seeks to Limit Conservation Law
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times (in Truthout), 10 August 2002
- White House Stand on Florida Manatee Is Faulted
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 12 July 2002
- U.S. Acts to Shrink Endangered Species Habitats
Greg Winter, New York Times, 20 March 2002
- Ending Logjam, U.S. Reaches Accord on Endangered Species
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 30 August 2001
- Could Bush's Environmental Moves Make Him an Endangered Species?
Jessica Reaves, Time, 12 April 2001
Global Warming
- The Bush Policy
- Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
Mark Townsend and Paul Harris, London Observer, 22 February 2004
- Bush covers up climate research
Paul Harris, The Guardian, 21 September 2003
- Experts Fault Bush's Proposal to Examine Climate Change
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 26 February 2003
- Global Warming? What Global Warming?
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 15 September 2002
- Unhealthy Air
Senator Jim Jeffords, New York Times, 29 June 2002
- Watson, come here, I want to fire you
Damien Cave, Salon, 8 April 2002
- Confidential Papers Show Exxon Hand In White House Move To Oust Top Scientist From International Global Warming Panel
National Resources Defense Council, 3 April 2002
- Dispute Arises Over a Push to Change Climate Panel
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 2 April 2002
- Ersatz Climate Policy
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 15 February 2002
- Bush Plan Expected to Slow, Not Halt, Gas Emission Rise
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 14 February 2002
- Kyoto Protocol
- U.S. attacked as EU ratifies Kyoto
CNN, 3 June 2002
- Deals Break Impasse on Global Warming Treaty
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 10 November 2001
- Global warming: sue the US now
Stephen Timms, The Guardian, 25 July 2001
- 178 Nations Reach Climate Accord; U.S. Only Looks On
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 24 July 2001
- Bonn agreement on global warming isolated the U.S.
Steve Kettmann, Salon, 23 July 2001
- Global warming treaty clinched; U.S. position booed by delegates
Mark Oliver, The Guardian, 23 July 2001
- Allies Tell Bush They'll Act Alone on Climate Accord
David E. Sanger and Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, 22 July 2001
- President accused of being cool on global warming
Traci Watson, USA Today, 10 July 2001
- Get Kyoto pact going with U.S. or without, Jospin tells Koizumi
Japan Times, 5 July 2001
- Bush still opposed to Kyoto pact
Japan Times, 3 July 2001
- Blair, Koizumi: US 'must re-engage in Kyoto'
BBC, 2 July 2001
- U.S. Rebuffs European Plea Not to Abandon Climate Pact
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 4 April 2001
- European Union Voices Concern for Climate Pact
Paul Meller, New York Times, 29 March 2001
- U.S. Going Empty-Handed to Meeting on Global Warming
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 29 March 2001
- Bush Team Under Attack on Emissions Talks
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 16 February 2001
- Congressional Actions
- Bush vs. Science
- Alaska, No Longer So Frigid, Starts to Crack, Burn and Sag
Timothy Egan, New York Times, 16 June 2002
- Sea level rises 'underestimated'
Jonathan Amos, BBC, 17 February 2002
- Research refutes Bush: Kyoto Protocol will boost economies
Alex Kirby, BBC, 19 July 2001
- Educating W: Global Warming Report Creates a Presidential Headache
Tony Karon, Time, 8 June 2001
- Panel Tells Bush Global Warming Is Real and Getting Worse
Katharine Q. Seelye with Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 7 June 2001
- National Science and Technology Council publishes report warning of global warming
Paul Brown, The Guardian, 9 April 2001
- International Issues
- Bush's Reversal on CO2 Emissions
Pollution
- Bush Cut Some Diesel Pollution But Let Big Ships Keep Spewing
Craig Welch, Seattle Times (in Truthout), 28 September 2004
- EPA Relied on Industry for Plywood Plant Pollution Rule
Alan C. Miller and Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 21 May 2004
- Four States Sue Power Plants Because EPA Stopped Investigating Alleged Violations of Clean Air Act
Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, 21 May 2004
- White House Undermined Chemical Tests, Report Says
Elizabeth Becker, New York Times, 2 April 2004
- Bush Administration Shelved MTBE Ban
Associated Press (in Truthout), 15 February 2004
- Utility Industry Documents Reveal Conspiracy to Violate Clean Air Laws
press release, National Resources Defense Council, 13 January 2004
- Bush Administration Proposes Fuel Economy Changes
press release, Sierra Club, 22 December 2003
- Exxon Rep: CO2 Output to Rise 50 Percent by 2020
Reuters (in Truthout), 20 November 2003
- How Bush and his coal industry cronies are covering up one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history
Phillip Babich, Salon, 13 November 2003
- EPA Shift Limits Suits Against Pesticide Maker
Associated Press (in Truthout), 6 October 2003
- Greenpeace Obtains Smoking-gun Memo: White House/Exxon Link
press release, Greenpeace (in Truthout), 9 September 2003
- Two EPA Officials Take Jobs with Firms Benefiting from Air Rule Change
Knight Ridder (in Truthout), 4 September 2003
- E.P.A. Relaxes Restrictions on Sales of Contaminated Land
Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times, 4 September 2003
- EPA Watchdog Rips White House on NYC Air
John Heilprin, Associated Press (in Truthout), 23 August 2003
- Bush 'takes a dive' on anti-environment lawsuits
CBS News (in Truthout), 19 April 2003
- Bush Administration Exempts Oil Industry From Clean Water Act
Elizabeth Shogren, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 8 March 2003
- Critics
Say Bush Broke Vow on Superfund Site in Edison
Robert Hanley, New York Times, 2 July 2002
- Judge Takes on the White House on Mountaintop Mining
Francis X. Clines, New York Times, 18 May 2002
- Bush Redefinition of Mountaintop Removal Probably Illegal
Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 13 May 2002
- Bush's Clear Sky plan laxer than EPA wanted
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times (in the San Francisco Chronicle), 28 April 2002
- Political Battle Looming Over Superfund Plan
Raymond Hernandez, New York Times, 15 April 2002
- Files Detail Debate in E.P.A. on Clean Air
Neela Banerjee, New York Times, 21 March 2002
- Stream Tests Show Traces of Array of Contaminants
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 13 March 2002
- Soot Particles Strongly Tied to Lung Cancer, Study Finds
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 6 March 2002
- Energy Firms Were Heard on Clean Air Rules — But No One Else
Don Van Natta Jr., New York Times, 1 March 2002
- Polluters Should Have to Pay
Carol Browner, New York Times, 1 March 2002
- Bush Proposing to Shift Burden of Toxic Cleanups to Taxpayers
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 24 February 2002
- E.P.A. and Energy Department War Over Clean Air Rules
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 19 February 2002
- U.S. Plans to Delay Requirement That Utilities Cut Emissions
Christopher Marquis, New York Times, 17 January 2002
- Senators Jeffords and Leahy Plan Joint Hearings on Clean Air
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times , 9 January 2002
- EPA says it will accept industry data gathered by giving paid subjects chemical doses of pesticides
Elizabeth Shogren, Los Angeles Times (in CommonDreams), 27 November 2001
- Overhaul of mining law called 'sham reform'
Robert McClure, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 26 October 2001
- Arsenic Standard for Water Is Too Lax, Study Concludes
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 11 September 2001
- Possible Federal Pullout Clouds Northeast States' Pollution Suits
Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 20 August 2001
- E.P.A. Postpones Decision on Revising Pollution Rules
Joseph Kahn, New York Times, 15 August 2001
- Bush to keep President Clinton's cleanup rules for mines
Robert McClure and Jennifer A. DlouhySeattle Post-Intelligencer, 15 June 2001
- White House wants to drop anti-pollution lawsuits, EPA resists
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 7 May 2001
- Tiny Bits of Soot Tied to Illnesses
Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 21 April 2001
- EPA decides to "protect" citizens from information about chemical risks
Carl Hulse, New York Times, 27 March 2001
- Oil Industry Seeks Softening of Clinton Clean-Air Rules
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 25 January 2001
Offshore Drilling
- Expanded Offshore Alaska Oil Drilling?
Yereth Rosen, Reuters (in Truthout), 15 September 2003
- U.S. Senate signals intent to block offshore oil leases
David Whitney, Sacramento Bee, 15 September 2002
- Oil-drilling push hits choppy seas
Martin Kasindorf, USA Today, 21 March 2002
- Florida oil spill fears
BBC, 4 July 2001
- Gulf
Oil: Another Compromise Loss For Bush
Frank Pellegrini,
Time, 3 July 2001
- Bush plans new offshore oil fields
Rob Watson, BBC, 2 July 2001
- Florida Senator Holds Up Interior Nominee to Protest Oil Drilling Plan
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 30 June 2001
Wilderness Land — National Monuments
- Recasting Wilderness as Open for Business
Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 24 October 2004
- Group Blasts Bush on Threat to Appalachian Trail
John Heilprin, Associated Press (in Truthout), 21 August 2004
- Secret policy changes made oil and gas development the dominant use of federal lands
The Wilderness Society (in Truthout), 26 May 2004
- Sensitive Wildlife Habitats Auctioned to Bush Contributors
Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, 1 March 2004
- Environmentalists Fear Mountaintop Mining
Associated Press (in Truthout), 7 January 2004
- Alaskan Area to be Opened to Drilling
Associated Press (in Truthout), 20 November 2003
- Bush proposes permitting Americans to 'harvest' threatened species in other countries
Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post (in Truthout), 11 October 2003
- Money Gone, U.S. Suspends Designations of Habitats
Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times, 29 May 2003
- Hidden Crisis is Taking Root in U.S. Parks
Seth Borenstein, Knight Ridder (in Truthout), 25 May 2003
- U.S. may leave forest care to timber firms
Zachary Coile, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 February 2003
- Republican Conferees Approve Provisions to Expand Development in Alaska National Forests
Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times, 12 February 2003
- Logging It Is
Jennifer Ferenstein and Annie Strickler, Sierra Club (in Truthout), 7 February 2003
- Park Service Report Concludes Snowmobile Ban Is Best for Parks
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 31 January 2003
- Bush Plan Could Take Much of the Wild Out of Wilderness
Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 23 January 2003
- Approval of Park Drilling Angers Environmentalists
Blaine Harden, New York Times, 22 November 2002
- White House backs away from proposed seashore
Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times (in the San Francisco Chronicle), 20 August 2002
- Endangered Landscape
Darcy Frey, New York Times, 30 June 2002
- Scorched-Earth Politics
editorial, New York Times, 30 June 2002
- Forest Service to Recommend Opening Alaska Forest Area to Lumber Industry
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 16 May 2002
- California Dunes May Be Reopened to Off-Road Vehicles
Nick Madigan, New York Times, 29 March 2002
- Oil industry has eye on national forest
Michael McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 March 2002
- Landscapes Under Siege
editorial, New York Times, 7 March 2002
- Snowmobilers Have Found an Ally in Bush
Blaine Harden, New York Times, 6 March 2002
- Chewing Up a Fragile Land
Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times, 21 February 2002
- Governor of Utah, in Reversal, Seeks Scenic Area Designation
Timothy Egan, New York Times, 29 January 2002
- Tribe Prepares for Renewed Fight Over Gold Mine
Nick Madigan, New York Times , 7 January 2002
- Mine in Wilderness Approved After 14 Years
New York Times, 28 December 2001
- Sale of Burned Timber Is Delayed to Hear Appeals
New York Times, 20 December 2001
- Government Bypasses Normal Process to Approve Timber Sale, Prompting Court Challenge
Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 18 December 2001
- Bush urged to protect forest areas
Charles Pope, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7 September 2001
- Debate Over a National Monument Emphasizes Old West-New West Divide
Jim Robbins, New York Times, 20 August 2001
- Norton Charts a Reactionary Course for the Interior Department
Timothy Egan, New York Times, 19 August 2001
- Gold Miners Eager for Bush to Roll Back Clinton Rules
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 16 August 2001
- Efforts to
"Replace" Wetlands Are Inadequate, Study Says
Andrew C. Revkin,
New York Times, 27 June 2001
- Unlikely Allies Press to Add Conservation to Farm Bill
Elizabeth Becker, New York Times, 17 June 2001
- Forest Service proposal would give less priority to ecosystem health
Katherine Pfleger, Associated Press (in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer), 15 June 2001
- Army Corps Seeks to Relax Wetlands Rules
Michael Grunwald, New York Times, 4 June 2001
- Bush regime will implement President Clinton's ban on forest roads now, dismantle them later
John King, CNN, 3 May 2001
- White House Considering Plan to Void Clinton Rule on Forests
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 2 May 2001
- Drilling Studied in Off-Limits Areas of Rockies
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 6 April 2001
- Gas-Rich Desert Will Test Bush's Environmental Resolve
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, February 2001
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