Reply #8: Bu$h: Cancerous Conservatism. Kerry: Environmental Hero [View All]

[Zorra]

A vote for Bu$h is a vote for death. (John Kerry, OTOH, was designated an environmental hero by the League of Conservation Voters)

Bush Receives “F” For Environmental Issues on LCV 2003 Presidential Report Card

“President Bush is well on his way to compiling the worst environmental record of any president in the history of our nation,” said Callahan. “Bush’s dismal Report Card is dominated by a disturbing trend: time after time, Bush favors corporate interests over the public’s interest in a clean, safe and healthy environment. Under the Bush administration, corporate polluters have been allowed to write the laws.”

The Report Card found that, since taking office, Bush has assaulted environmental protections on all fronts, including air, water, land and wildlife. In particular, the Bush administration has attacked, weakened or undermined laws providing clean air, clean water, and toxic waste cleanups. Primary beneficiaries of these actions have been timber, mining, oil and gas, and real estate development companies.

The Bush administration has also targeted a series of complex regulations that barely register on the American public’s radar screen to drastically reduce clean air and water protections, and increase industry exploitation of public lands, the Report Card reveals.

The administration has proposed regulatory changes, for example, to weaken a significant provision of the Clean Air Act called “new source review,” which currently requires older, more polluting industrial plants to upgrade pollution controls when they renovate or expand in such a way that increases emissions of pollutants.

http://www.lcv.org/News/News.cfm?ID=1658&c=26

Environmentalists for John Kerry

John Kerry has been a leader in the environmental movement throughout his career. Kerry was called the Senate’s most outspoken environmentalist and was named an Environmental Hero by the League of Conservation Voters. In 1970 he helped organize the Massachusetts’ first Earth Day, then led the fight against acid rain in the northeast as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. He helped defeat efforts to roll back the environmental accomplishments of a generation whether in the form of regulatory reform or efforts to drill in national monuments and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And Kerry led the effort to make environmental preservation a global priority through comprehensive treaties and pushing for the inclusion
of important environmental protections in free trade agreements.

Here is some of what John Kerry has done and will do to protect America’s environment:

Continue the Fight for Clean Air: John Kerry is a leader in addressing the problem of acid rain and air pollution. His work led to the passage of tougher smog standards in the Clean Air Act of 1990. And he fought hard to block the efforts that would weaken the Clean Air Act and joined a bipartisan proposal to limit mercury, sulfur, nitrogen and carbon dioxide (commonly called the Four Pollutant Bill) from power plants.

Provide Clean and Safe Drinking Water: John Kerry worked to guarantee cleaner and safer drinking water by strengthening the Safe Drinking Water Act, and fought efforts to weaken it. Most recently Kerry voiced his strong opposition to President Bush’s attempt to rollback drinking water standards for arsenic. According to the National Academy of Sciences, arsenic in drinking water may cause cancer, damage heart and blood vessels and contribute to birth defects. Fortunately, the Bush Administration reversed course and implemented the original proposal toreduce arsenic in drinking water.

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