Bush quietly changing nation's environmental policies

SJ Mercury News ^ | 1/18/03 | Seth Borenstein

[NormsRevenge]

A buffalo watches snowmobile riders pass by in Yellowstone National Park.

WASHINGTON - Halfway into his four-year term, President Bush has significantly altered the nation's environmental policies, often without attracting much notice.

A handful of his most controversial policies have made headlines, notably his abandonment of an international treaty on global warming, approval of a federal dump for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and his proposal to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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[dagar]

'Funny that Libs don't [ever] bother to mention that NO Senator voted for the Kyoto Protocol.

[Free the USA]

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[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for this great find and post.

We have a lot of conservatives who bitch and moan everyday that there is no difference between GW and the Goron. Or they mutter their mantras that he is a dupe for the NWO and the enviral whackos.

They need to wake and smell the progress that our stealth president has been doing is doing to roll back the agendas of the Watermelons of America. This article is a reality check.

Give him 60 senators in the 2004 election, and you will see a lot more progress in rolling back the agendas of the Watermelon Jidadists the past 3 decades.

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Halfway into his four-year term, President Bush has significantly altered the nation's environmental policies, often without attracting much notice.

A handful of his most controversial policies have made headlines, notably his abandonment of an international treaty on global warming, approval of a federal dump for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and his proposal to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

But Bush's administration has slipped a number of major policy changes under the public's and the media's radar by quietly issuing executive orders that don't require congressional approval, making announcements late on Fridays, rewriting highly technical environmental regulations and muzzling dissent within the administration.

The Mercury News Washington Bureau asked three dozen experts in the environmental-protection and business communities to assess the administration's environmental record at midterm. They cited more than 50 major changes in policy, including:

• Dramatically stepping up drilling for oil and natural gas on public land.

• Loosening environmental restrictions on logging and mining on federal property.

• Easing rules that require environmental-impact assessments before thinning national forests, starting certain military activities such as bombing practice and building major transportation projects such as airports or highways.

• The Bush administration is cleaning up 31 percent fewer Superfund sites per month than the Clinton administration did, and polluters are paying 64 percent less in fines per month than they did during the late 1990s, according to a Knight Ridder analysis of settlements published in the Federal Register.

• Rejecting a worldwide treaty to curb global warming and pushing a comprehensive energy plan that stresses reliance on fossil fuels, which cause global warming and air pollution.

• Proposing to weaken the cornerstone air and water pollution laws enacted in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

• Proposing to slash air pollution from power plants by 70 percent and to limit diesel engine emissions.

Environmental-protection groups and many ecologists call the Bush's record deplorable. ``The administration has been like carbon monoxide, hard to detect and deadly with respect to the environment,'' said David Wilcove, a Princeton University ecology professor.

Business interests, conservative think-tank experts and administration officials argue that the president's approach brings refreshing innovation while cutting back excessive regulation.

The administration has embraced ``a new way of thinking that is results-oriented,'' said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. ``It's based on working in a cooperative way. . . . Environmental protection and economic growth can go hand in hand.''

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Anyone, who says there is no difference between GW and the Goron has a very serious problem, and they need professional help!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping and the post!

Remarkable progress is being made by a President that is fighting a War as well!

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks, Grampa Dave. President Bush needs our support more then ever as the enemies of the Republic openly operate within our borders and on our shores. The environazi movement is just one of many tentacles of the beast we know as marXism/socialism,communist, whatever you want to call it. Their end game is control of everything and everyone.

We are Blessed that x43 is a God-fearing man and is prepared to act and not just hum along with the Red Tide while the last great bastion of freedom is, even now in DC and cities nation-wide, under direct assault by its bitter sworn enemies.

[Grampa Dave]

Yes, he is leading the war for our survival inspite of the Rat Traitors in the Senate/House and on the streets of America today.

He has had zero control of the Senate for most of last year, and he still gets these things done.

It is time to develop a Zero tolerance for those who babbled on that is no difference between GW and the Goron!

[NormsRevenge]

THE SEDITION ACT OF JULY 14, 1798

An Act in addition to the act, entitled "An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States."

SEC. I Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any persons shall unlawfully combine or conspire together, with intent to oppose any measure or measures of the government of the United States, which are or shall be directed by proper authority, or to impede the operation of any law of the United States, or to intimidate or prevent any person holding a place or office in or under the government of the United States, from undertaking, performing or executing his trust or duty; and if any person or persons, with intent as aforesaid, shall counsel, advise or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot. unlawful assembly, or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction, before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment during a term not less than six months nor exceeding five years; and further, at the discretion of the court may be holden to find sureties for his good behaviour in such sum, and for such time, as the said court may direct.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or publishing, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, and declared, That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing any libel aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, and no longer: Provided. That the expiration of the act shall not prevent or defeat a prosecution and punishment of any offence against the law, during the time it shall be in force.

JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THEODORE SEDGWICK, President of the Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED, July 14, 1798:

JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.

[Grampa Dave]

Amen Brother Norm, and I hope that an old squid can say "Semper Fi to you for these remarks!"

Thanks, Grampa Dave. President Bush needs our support more then ever as the enemies of the Republic openly operate within our borders and on our shores. The environazi movement is just one of many tentacles of the beast we know as marXism/socialism,communist, whatever you want to call it. Their end game is control of everything and everyone.

We are Blessed that #43 is a God-fearing man and is prepared to act and not just hum along with the Red Tide while the last great bastion of freedom is, even now in DC and cities nation-wide, under direct assault by its bitter sworn enemies. (I removed the X as he is still #43!)

[justshe]

Thanks for the ping, Grampa Dave. I am pinging chiller...who started a thread back in December BUSH AGENDA/SCORECARD-"THESE GUYS ARE GOOD" specifically so we would have a list for those who argue there is little or no difference between Bush vs. Gore, or the GOP vs. Dems. If he is still keeping his LIST...I think these environmental actions should be added.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, we need some good indexer to collect these documented differences to expose the lies or outdate mantras that there is no difference between GW and the Goron!

[BOBTHENAILER]

They need to wake and smell the progress that our stealth president has been doing is doing to roll back the agendas of the Watermelons of America. This article is a reality check

Don't ya just love it!

[copycat]

"There's no difference between Bush and Gore" - Assorted Morons.

[copycat]

Thanks, we need some good indexer to collect these documented differences to expose the lies or outdate mantras that there is no difference between GW and the Goron!

Oops, I see you covered that angle already!!

[BOBTHENAILER]

...I think these environmental actions should be added.

Great job compiling a list to destroy the enemies. I agree with Gramps, anyone not seeing the difference Bush has brought to the table is functionally brain dead.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Drilling and prospecting for minerals increased dramatically in 2001 on federal land in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Montana. Oil rigs towered over the outskirts of national parks such as Canyonlands and Arches in Utah.

Great find and post NR.

I wish all those enviro/nazis opposed to the global warming caused by oil & gas usage during 10 deg weather would just turn their heat off.

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for the correction. ;-). If we're lucky #44 will be another Bush :-)

[Grampa Dave]

That is fine. We need more of us to say to these no difference sheeple/morons, that is time for them to wake and help us instead helping the rats and the enviralists with their old no difference mantras.

[Grampa Dave]

You Marines love to stir things up don't you with comments like this: If we're lucky #44 will be another Bush :-)

That just ruined the day for a whole lot of Bush haters! Go get them, Norm! Stir them up and do some Marine butt kicking!