How non-profits can lobby for environmental causes and make a difference in the next election.
"When faced with the most anti-environmental President in history...does it make sense to, say, work overtime to save local green space when national policies create air so unbreathable its unsafe to be outside on summer days?...Since his election, Bush has, among many other things, abandoned the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, weakened wetlands protection, gutted mining restrictions on federal lands, called for increased logging, refused to endorse higher automobile fuel-efficiency standards, sued California for enacting tough air laws, repealed a law that would have lowered power-plant emissions, and offered tax reform that allows an enormous spectrum of businesses to deduct the full cost of large SUVs in the first year of purchase.
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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