How Bush Administration Policies Harm Wisconsin Communities
Mr. President: There Is a Better Way to Protect Wisconsin's Families and Communities!
Wisconsin is rich and abundant with lakes, rivers, forests, farms, and wildlife. Regardless of the season or region, people from Wisconsin enjoy a special relationship with the outdoors. We know that protecting our natural resources and beauty makes Wisconsin's economy stronger and our families healthier.
From Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River, natural resources have always been important to our residents and civic leaders. Today, however, our State's treasured environment has been put at risk. Bush administration policies that weaken and ignore federal environmental safeguards are already harming our communities' health and threatening our outdoors.
The Bush administration is allowing power, chemical, and coal companies, and other industries to rewrite and weaken the laws and regulations that protect the health and safety of Wisconsin's families. The Bush administration is allowing corporations to benefit at our expense.
It has given big electricity companies incentive to build more outdated, polluting coal-fired plants, instead of cleaner, more innovative renewable power generation facilities. The Bush administration has placed increased emphasis upon polluting highways, instead of investing in cleaner public transportation. It has encouraged the country's dependence upon nuclear power generation and has shown an interest in creating a nuclear waste dump in Wisconsin. And it has put our nation's women and children at risk of mercury poisoning.
The Bush administration's undermining of our nation's most basic environmental protections leaves the people of Wisconsin exposed and vulnerable to increased amounts of asthma-triggering smog, development-retarding mercury, radioactive waste, and other contaminants. Encouraging more coal-fired power plants as opposed to cleaner energy alternatives puts our citizens-especially children and the elderly-at risk.
This report documents the consequences of Bush administration actions-and lack of actions-on the health and safety of families in communities across Wisconsin. This report also serves to remind us what we have learned over the last thirty years. There is a better way. We have the know-how and a successful track record cleaning up pollution in our air, water, and soil.
But know-how is clearly not enough when the Bush administration is determined to let the corporations off the hook and de-fund the agencies responsible for enforcing environmental laws. Only public pressure on public officials will ensure that the last three decades of progress is not lost and instead continues to keep our communities safe, protecting our children's legacy of clean air, water, and still-wild lands.
At risk in Wisconsin:
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