Sorry about that, got interrupted.

To continue.

"riverman"

typed in Message-ID:
References:

http://www.cspo.org/home/news/ The one about the clean air degredation in
the Grand Canyon is from the Salt Lake Tribune....hardly the Sierra Club.

Are you claiming that this has just happened? Or that he isn't fixing it?
Why didn't Clinton fix it, he had 8 years?

links
to an article in the SanFran Chronicle about Bush's relaxation of the laws
creating roadless areas in National Forests. This opened up millions of
acres of forestland to timber industries, that had previously been off

limits, including hundreds of thousands of acres of old growth in the
Tongass in Alaska.

Actually had only been off limits since Jan.2001, when as a lame duck
President,
Clinton instituted the "Roadless Rules".
It was in court numerous times, the Tongass NF settled out of court, then there
was a Permanent Injuction against enforcing this rule change. While the Bush
Administration would probably support this ruling, they didn't have much to do
with it.
Presidents don't like to see administrative actions overturned by court
decision, set a bad precedent.

n Feb of this year, there was a consortium of scientists and Nobel
laureates, 63 in all, who condemned Bush's environmental policies as being
partisian, and of "systematically and deliberately distorting" the
scientific research to further political gain. I'm sure not all of

those
guys were in the pay of the National Wildlife Resources Council.
http://www.washingtonfax.com/samples/2004/20040219.html



I just followed all the links provided and found a lot of stuff like "well
found" and
"documented", but they did'nt seem to produce much of it. I'm afraid I have to
put this one down as editorial. I try to follow up with a little web search
later on that one.

Last year, Bush instructed the Dept of Interior to stop barring drilling for
petroresources or mining on land proposed for wilderness protection. In
fact, he has put the least amount of land into wilderness status of any
presiden since the Wilderness Act was first proposed.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5898

I'm sure this one is true. Last time I looked, the US economy still run on Oil,

so I have to say that I support this one.

OTOH, Increased funding from the Conservation Fund

Increased funding for wetland protection
(Must be a duck hunter).

Made the first major increase in the Clean Air Standards for a long time,
including the first time levels of Mercury were included
(outside of medical waste).

Not wonderful, but then again he didn't run on a "green" platform. But he isn't
clearcutting Yellowstone or stripmining The Smokies either. Despite the uproar,
he has been pretty middle of the road on all of this stuff and support the
things that the people that voted for him support. So he won't do
anything to the Clean Water or Air act, but will not restrict access to Public
Land.






SYOTR
Larry C.