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BushWatch
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Turning green to greenbacks
On Earth Day, April 12, President George W. Bush spoke in
Knoxville, Tenn. This is a day we recommit ourselves to being good
stewards of the land, he said.
His stewardship includes backing off from a campaign pledge to regulate
carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, abandoning the Kyoto agreement
to reduce global warming; allowing new oil and gas leasing on fragile
grasslands; leasing more of the Rocky Mountains to oil and gas companies;
repealing President Clintons plan to save one-third of the national
forests from new roads and development.
Bushs record has earned the criticism of scientists, including a
top NASA climate expert on global warming and the National Academy of
Sciences. The 2005 index of environmental sustainability ranked the U.S.
45th of the 146 countries studied. Japan, Botswana, Bhutan and most of
Western Europe came out ahead of the U.S.
JLT
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