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Holiday In Wales Tripling allowable levels of mercury pollution, shifting the burden of toxic clean up from polluters to taxpayers, and undoing rules for cleaning up America's dirtiest power plants topped a laundry list of Bush administration exploits to weaken decades environmental progress in 2003.

But Mr. Bush' protection angered environmental leaders. Allen Mattison, a spokesman for the Sierra Club, warned that Mr. Bush's plan might "open the door to runaway logging" in areas that are now protected.

Holiday Wales "The Bush administration is systematically turning back 30 years of environmental progress," said Carl Pope, Sierra Club executive director. "You really have to go back to the McKinley administration in the late 19th century to find so many gratuitous giveaways to special interests looking to exploit our air, water, and natural areas. Americans want a 21st century administration that can deliver forward-thinking environmental solutions."

The Bush administration is proving that they are increasing commercial timber sales at the expense of community protection. The Bush administration Forest Service spent $90, 000 on a public relations firm to sell its logging plan for the Sierra Nevada, but they are busy cutting funds from community protection. //www.sfgate. article.cgi file=/ BAG295HLG71.DTL

Cottage Holiday In Wales The Sierra Club surveyed subscribers of RAW, the organization's twice-weekly electronic newsletter tracking the Bush administration's environmental record, to determine the worst-of-the-worst decisions affecting public health and the environment. Mercury pollution, toxic cleanup, and soot and smog registered as the greatest concerns, from a list that also included oil drilling on sensitive lands, a secret amnesty deal for giant factory farms, and lax environmental enforcement, among others.

"Third and fourth generation family farmers can't enjoy their backyards, sometimes can't even leave their houses, due to the toxic gases coming from the manure in these industrial feedlots. Knowing that these animal factories are a major source of toxic pollution, why is the Bush administration cutting secret deals cut behind closed doors and letting polluting animal factories off the hook from their responsibility to obey clean air and clean water laws " asked Pat Gallagher, Sierra Club's Director of Environmental Law.

Caravan Holiday In Wales The survey also found that the public is largely unaware of the broad scope of the Bush administration's assaults on the nation's air, water and lands, Pope said. Many respondents expressed surprise that they haven't heard more about the administration's environmental record from mainstream media.

A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected the Bush administration's bid to stop a lawsuit that seeks to delve into the energy industry's ties to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. 1 ruling, the court said administration officials must turn over some information about the task force or list specific documents that they intend to withhold from the proceedings. The administration argues that the lawsuit by the Sierra Club and a conservative group, Judicial Watch, is an unwarranted intrusion into the internal deliberations of the executive branch of government.

Camping Holiday Wales "Trying to limit my vote to three big ones is beyond difficult," wrote one RAW reader in a typical response. "This administration is doing more damage than the Reagan & Bush Sr. ones did. And I didn't think that was even possible! Thank you for making the effort to educate Americans about what this administration is really doing to this country!"

An environmental group sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday for delays in forcing power plants and other large air polluters in Georgia to clean up emissions. The suit, filed by the Sierra Club in Atlanta's U.S. District Court, says the EPA has dragged its feet for nearly two years on setting pollution limits in the state. "They should have done it a long time ago, " said Curtis Cox, an attorney with the Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest who is representing the Sierra Club.

Accommodation Holiday Wales The full list of 2003 Bush administration actions, ranked according to the survey response, appears below. To subscribe to RAW, visit http://www.sierraclub.org/raw.

Holiday Last Minute Wales 1. MERCURY RISING - Issued public health warnings to pregnant women and children about mercury after announcing policy changes to triple amount of mercury pollution allowed from power plants.

Catering Holiday Self Wales 2. SUPER DUPED - Became first administration to support shifting burden of Superfund toxic waste cleanups from polluters to taxpayers.

Holiday Wales Walking 3. SOOTY SANTA - Dismantled provision of Clean Air Act that requires oldest, dirtiest power plants and refineries to curb soot and smog pollution.

Family Holiday Wales 4. BACK IN BLACKOUT - Proposed a national Energy Bill that did nothing to reduce dependence on foreign oil, repair or address antiquated electricity grid, or protect special places from oil and gas drilling.

Holiday Riding Wales 5. DRILLING WILDERNESS - Opened nearly 9 million pristine acres in Northwest Alaska to the oil and gas industry for exploration and drilling.

Adventure Holiday Wales 6. STONEWALLING, BIG TIME (tied)- Continued to withhold documents from secret meetings between Bush/Cheney Energy Task Force and energy industry lobbyists.

Holiday Park South Wales 6. DON'T AX, DON'T TELL (tied) - Promoted a wildfire policy that expanded commercial logging in the backcountry but did little to protect people where they live.

Cottage Holiday Wales 7. NEXT STOP, SHINOLA - Allowed untreated sewage to be blended with treated sewage, cut funding for local sewage treatment, and didn't require health officials to warn public about sewage in water.

Holiday In Wales 8. CRITICAL CONDITION - Obliterated the process of critical habitat designation for imperiled wildlife under the Endangered Species Act.

Holiday Wales 9. COP OFF - Continued pattern of willful negligence for enforcement of even basic clean water and clean air laws.

Cottage Holiday In Wales 10. POST 9/11 LIES - Discovered by EPA Inspector General to have lied about post 9/11 environmental health hazards near Ground Zero.

Caravan Holiday In Wales 11. ROAD WARRIOR - Expanded the legal loophole that allows obnoxious road claims through federally protected wilderness, national parks, and public lands.

Camping Holiday Wales 12. HOG WASH - Secretly negotiated backroom deal to exempt giant animal factories from laws governing air and toxic pollution.

Accommodation Holiday Wales 13. POLLUTED LOGIC - Refused to classify industrial carbon emissions, linked to global warming, as an official pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Holiday Last Minute Wales 14. HOT AIR - Proposed fantasy hydrogen power initiative to improve auto fuel efficiency rather than promoting more proven technologies like gas-electric hybrids.

Catering Holiday Self Wales 15. ESTATE TOX - Ended a 25-year ban on the sale of PCB-laden real estate.

Holiday Wales Walking Contact: Eric Antebi, 415-977-5747

Family Holiday Wales Sierra Club - 12/23/2003

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