The Damning Details:
Superfund
Adapted from Strategic
Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration is Recklessly Destroying
a Century of Environmental Progress, by Carl Pope
and Paul Rauber, now out from Sierra Club Books.
September 30, 2003, was the day Superfund died. The deceased
left behind some 1,000 toxic waste sites—many of them
"orphans," whose original owners had fled or gone
out of business. George Bush’s plan is that henceforth
any cleanups of these orphan sites will be paid for not by
the industries that created the problem but by the taxpayers
and victimized communities themselves.
The White House did not even put out one of its tepid Friday-afternoon
press releases announcing the demise. Nor did the president—who
has often proclaimed that he was elected to solve problems,
not leave them to future generations—call on Congress
for additional funds to keep Superfund going. But in the hard-right
think tanks and K Street lobbyist suites, the champagne corks
should have been popping.
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The Whole Enchilada:
Top Ten Bush Administration Environmental Misdeeds
If you judged the Bush administration’s environmental
initiatives by their names alone—like "Clear Skies"and
"Healthy Forests"—you might conclude that
the Bush team was fighting to protect our air, water, and
wildlands.
But upon closer examination it becomes clear that the laws
and rules the administration has enacted since taking office
constitute a broad and sweeping attack on environmental protection,
and payback for the campaign-trail generosity of the coal,
oil, and other dirty industries. Whenever polluters’
interests have collided with those of citizens, the polluters
have prevailed. There is a better way.
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