Bush's War On The Environment

In his new book "What We've Lost" Graydon Carter reviews George W. Bush's "atrocious" record on the environment. An excerpt from the book.

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September 2, 2004, 10:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


"The Bush White House inherited an environment that had been all but saved by the Clean Air and Clean Water acts of the 1970s. The administration thus turned its back on more than 30 years' worth of advances in environmental legislation and global treaties in order to reward its campaign backers from the oil and gas industries - from whose ranks of executives so many important government posts have been filled. As with the environment, so it is for everything else: it is difficult to point to a single element of American society which comes under federal jurisdiction that is not worse off than it was an administration ago. One can only hope that this is not to be the story of our times, a terrible dream from which we will one day awake only to realise what we've lost."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Wednesday, September 1, 2004 in The Guardian Unlimited

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