...all of which Clinton did. His Friday night F***Y**s to the American people were legendary.
• The Bush administration is cleaning up 31 percent fewer Superfund sites per month than the Clinton administration did,
• 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.
No liberal bias here.....nothing to see, move on....
According to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, the oil and gas industry gave nearly $17 million to Republicans in 2002 and $1.9 million to the Bush campaign. The forestry industry gave $3.2 million to Republicans in 2002 and nearly $300,000 to Bush's campaign.
Bool-sheet. If they were really non-partisan, they'd tell you how much these same groups gave to the Democrats.
Another major change -- an attempt to thin fire-prone forests would weaken the 1969 law that requires the government to file environmental-impact statements before such projects can proceed. That proposal requires congressional approval.
Of course, this article contains no testimony or mention of the areas that WERE NOT thinned and as a result were burned to a crisp. Has everyone forgot those huge forest fires???
Another Clinton rule called for phasing out snowmobile use in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, starting this winter. The Bush administration canceled that rule, proposing instead to allow up to 1,100 snowmobiles a day in both parks combined. On an average day, about 840 snowmobiles total thunder through the parks, and the number reaches 1,650 on busy weekends.
The Bush administration also canceled a Clinton rule preventing companies that cause ``significant irreparable harm'' from mining any more public land.
In addition, Bush's EPA has taken modest steps to reduce soot emissions from diesel engines, which experts say is probably the nation's biggest air-pollution problem.
Drilling.... 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.
Other initiatives have made it easier for the mining industry to get minerals from federal lands and for the timber industry to take trees from federal forests.
I thought journalism was supposed to be objective reporting, not using carefully placed emphasis words.