"The air is getting cleaner."
George W. Bush, AP, 4.16.04

Well, so foreign policy might be bad, but at least he's strong on the envorinment.

(updated February 1st, 2005)
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Environmental Policy

• Bush broke promises about environment, by Cecil Andrus, Bruce Babbitt, and Stewart Udall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 21, 2004
• Environmental Whopper, LA Times, October 16, 2004
• Bush scorns environmental responsibility, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 13, 2004
• Bush no friend of the environment, by Jay Inslee, CONGRESSMAN, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 5, 2004
• U.S. Isolated as Kremlin Endorses Kyoto, by Jim Lobe, InterPress Service, September 30th, 2004
  "Thursday's decision by the Russian government to endorse ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions has thrown a particularly stark spotlight on the degree to which President George W Bush has isolated the United States on the issue of global warming, as well as other transnational problems."
• Cheaper vs. cleaner: big differences, by Brad Knickerbocker, The Christian Science Monitor, September 28, 2004
• The Choice on the Environment, Washington Post, September 27, 2004
• Oil and Gas Hold the Reins in the Wild West: Land-Use Decisions Largely Favor Energy Industry, by Joby Warrick and Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, Saturday, September 25, 2004
• EPA's chief under Nixon rips Bush on environment: Says he will vote for Kerry, by Bill Novak, The Capital Times, September 23, 2004
• Bush Record: New Priorities in Environment, by Felicity Barringer, New York Times, September 14, 2004
• Bush Environment Record an Issue in Nevada, The Associated Press, Sept. 12, 2004
• Restoring Scientific Integrity, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 8th, 2004
• New Report: Bush Puts Politics Over Science 6/29/2004
• Scientists group says Bush's politics are trumping facts, Scott Condon, June 29, 2004
• Bush Environmental Policies Endanger Homeland Security, US Newswire, 6/28/2004
• Bush appointee must clear any scientist advising WHO: World health agency says policy threatens free, open inquiry, San Francsisco Chronicle, June 26, 2004
• Florida's Environment At Risk, a report on the local impact of Bush Environmental Policy on the State of Florida (April, 2004) (PDF)
• The Junk Science of George W. Bush , by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for THE NATION February 19, 2004
• A change in enforcement policy will lead the Environmental Protection Agency to drop investigations into 50 power plants for past violations of the Clean Air Act, lawyers at the agency who were briefed on the decision this week said. ...Congressional critics, environmental groups and officials in some Northeast states described the change as a major victory for the utility industry and a defeat for environmentalists, who had viewed the cases as the best way to require the companies to install billions of dollars of new pollution controls. (New York Times, 11/6/03)
• The U.S. Military's War on the Earth, by Bob Feldman, AlterNet, Dollars and Sense. March 13, 2003
• White House budget office thwarts EPA warning on asbestos-laced insulation, by Andrew Schneider, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Dec. 29, 2002 (pdf)

Global Warming

• Global warming may kill off polar bears in 20 years, says WWF, by Bradley Klapper, The Guardian [UK], January 31, 2005
• Study points to Arctic disaster, Scotsman [UK], January 30, 2005
  DANGEROUS levels of climate change could come in just over 20 years, with campaigners claiming that if nothing is done the Earth will have warmed 2°C by 2060.
• Michael Crichton and Global Warming, David B. Sandalow (Environment Scholar, Foreign Policy Studies), The Brookings Institution, January 28, 2005
• Alarm at new climate warning, by Richard Black, BBC environment correspondent, 26 January, 2005
  The study used a programme that ran on PCs around the world Temperatures around the world could rise by as much as 11C, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run.
• U.S. Wants No Warming Proposal: Administration Aims to Prevent Arctic Council Suggestions, by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, November 4, 2004
• Antarctic Sea Ice Retreats, Posing Threat to Krill, Wildlife, Bloomberg, November 3, 2004
• Climate Change Melts Arctic Ice, technewsworld.com, November 3rd, 2004
  Negative changes include a shorter season for oil and gas development due to soggy tundra and rising seas due to the melting of ice sheets. Although the U.S. government participated in funding the report and hosting meetings, sources involved in the project have said the State Department has questioned the policy recommendations.
• Climate change is here, now, say scientists, CBC North News, Nov 3 2004
• And yet it melts, The Guardian, November 3, 2004
• Global warming accelerates arctic melt, RealEstateGates.com, November 3rd, 2004
• Arctic melt accelerates, governments split, CNN, November 2, 2004
  A thaw of the Arctic icecap is accelerating because of global warming but nations in the region including the United States are deadlocked about how to stop it.
• Subverting ScienceNew York Times, October 31, 2004
• Climate fear as carbon levels soar: Scientists bewildered by sharp rise of CO2 in atmosphere for second year running, by Paul Brown, environment correspondent, Guardian Unlimited [UK], October 11, 2004
• Devastation linked to global warming, by Gaby Hinsliff and Robin McKie, The Observer [UK], September 12, 2004
• Science sidelined, Boston Globe, August 29, 2004
• Americans backtrack on global warming, by Gary Younge, The Age, August 28, 2004

Pollution

• It's Not All Blue Skies for Drilling Project: expansion of gas wells in Rocky Mountain states will degrade the air at several national parks. By Miguel Bustillo, LA Times, January 29, 2005
• Sam Bodman's Smokestacks: Bush's Choice for Energy Czar is One of Texas's Worst Polluters, by Jason Leopold, CounterPunch, January 17, 2005
• Child cancers linked to pollution, DeHavilland, 17/01/2005
  The majority of child cancers are probably caused by exposure to pollutants while babies are still in the womb, a new study claims.
• Cover-Up on Clean Air, New York Times, October 6, 2004
• Pollution Retards Lung Development in Kids: Breathing Polluted Air Linked to Reduced Lung Function in Children, By Salynn Boyles, WebMD Medical News, September 8, 2004
• Polluted Sites Could Face Shortage of Cleanup Money, by Felicity Barringer, New York Times, August 16, 2004
• U.S. beach closures hit 14-year high: Unsafe water caused by runoff, lack of funding, report says, by Alexandre Da Silva / Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, August 6th, 2004
• Republicans Blast George Bush for Protecting Polluters and Destroying the American Environment, Why We Hate Bush, July 21, 2004
• Republicans blast President Bush on environment, By Erik Stetson, Associated Press, July 20th, 2004
• California Attorney General says emissions plan fails to adequately protect air, public health, News-Medical.net, Tuesday, 29-Jun-2004
• EPA Releases 2002 Toxic Release Inventory: Right-to-Know Compromised, OMBwatch, June 28, 2004
• Toxic Pollution Rose 5 Percent in 2002, by John Heilprin, Associated Press, June 23, 2004
• Study Ranks Bush Plan to Cut Air Pollution as Weakest of 3, by Michael Janofsky, New York Times June 10, 2004
• Statement on EPA's Ozone Designations and Implementation Rule by the American Lung Association

Ground Water Contamination

• Let Them Eat Rocket Fuel, by Erik D. Olson, TomPaine.com, January 27, 2005
  More than 20 million Americans have rocket fuel in their drinking water. That’s right. Rocket fuel. It’s also likely in your milk. And in your lettuce, too, because farmers out West inadvertently use rocket-fuel-contaminated water to irrigate their crops.
• Drinking Water Debate Gets More Heated, National Resources Defense Council, 1/11/2005

Coal Mining

• They flattened this mountaintop to find coal - and created a wasteland: A ravaged US state is fighting back against mining bosses who backed Bush, Paul Harris reports in Charleston, West Virginia, The Observer, January 16, 2005
• Appalachia Is Paying Price for White House Rule Change, by Joby Warrick, Washington Post, August 17, 2004

Wilderness and Protecting Wildlife

• A Sneaky Bid for Arctic Oil, LA Times, Februrary 1st, 2005
• Defending the Arctic, Boston Globe, January 31, 2005
• Rule changes undermine public lands, by Mitch Friedman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 27, 2005
• Recasting Wilderness as Open for Business: A Bush administration policy reversal ends decades of shielding the nation's untamed areas, By Henry Weinstein, LA Times, October 25, 2004
• Not 780. Not Even One. LA Times, October 7th, 2004
  The Bush administration should give up its crusade to keep noisy, smelly snowmobiles running around Yellowstone National Park each winter's day. They don't belong, period. Not the 493 once proposed in the park. Not the 780 allowed by a federal judge in Wyoming. Not the 720 the National Park Service now proposes for the coming winter. Not one.
• Valuing Wilderness, New York Times, September 10, 2004
• Roads to ruin, The Boston Globe, September 4, 2004
• We Can Still Halt Bush's Assault on Wilderness, by Bob Devine, LA Times, September 3, 2004
• Wilderness sellout: Bush administration guts Clinton roadless rule, 17 July 2004

Extinction

• Amphibians face mass extinction threat AFP, October 15 2004

Resources

• Natural Resources Defense Council
  This administration, in catering to industries that put America's health and natural heritage at risk, threatens to do more damage to our environmental protections than any other in U.S. history. Here is NRDC's account of what the Bush administration has done and is doing on environmental matters.
• League of Conservation Voters,
• Sierra Club's W Watch: Keeping tabs on the President's environmental record
• League of Conservation Voters Report: Poisoning our Skies The study reports on how the rule would save corporate polluters billions, while risking the lives of millions.