NRDC: Bush unleashes final attacks on environment

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The Bush Administration is using its final weeks in office to
wage a last-ditch, corporate-sponsored assault on our nation's
wildlife and wildlands.

We need your help to respond swiftly and decisively -- or
President Bush could take a devastating toll on our natural
heritage before President-elect Obama ever takes office.
Reversing this kind of extensive damage will be difficult, if
not impossible.

Please make an emergency, tax-deductible donation right now so
that NRDC can galvanize the courts and public opposition before
it's too late: https://secure.nrdconline.org/08/year_end/

Here are just a few of the 11th hour attacks we're now
mobilizing to stop:

Exterminating Wolves: Just weeks after NRDC saved wolves in the
Northern Rockies from mass slaughter, the Bush Administration is
rushing to put a new wolf-killing plan in place that would lead
to a state-sponsored massacre of hundreds of wolves in Greater
Yellowstone and central Idaho.

We need your immediate help to launch a tidal wave of national
opposition -- and fight in court -- to prevent this senseless
slaughter: https://secure.nrdconline.org/08/year_end/

Destroying Our Alaskan Rainforest: The Bush Administration is
proceeding with a new management plan that would cut the heart
out of Alaska's Tongass National Forest by throwing open 2.3
million acres of this natural treasure to the logging industry.

We need your donation to take the Administration back to court
and restore life-saving protections for the Tongass. It's now
do-or-die for America's greatest rainforest:
https://secure.nrdconline.org/08/year_end/

Sacrificing the Polar Bear: The Bush White House wants to set
off a new Arctic oil rush before it leaves office -- and it's
not going to let the polar bear stand in its way. It has already
announced it will not use the Endangered Species Act to protect
polar bears against massive oil development in its fragile
habitat.

Your contribution will enable NRDC to fight for the sake of
polar bear survival in two different federal courtrooms:
https://secure.nrdconline.org/08/year_end/

The final weeks of the Bush Administration could prove
absolutely devastating for America's wildlife and wildlands. And
the only hope for preventing the most disastrous outcomes is
NRDC legal action -- or the threat of our legal action.

We need your immediate and most generous financial support if we
are going to fight the Bush Administration on so many fronts at
once -- and win!

Please take a moment right now to make a tax-deductible donation
and save our environment from this president's final and most
withering assaults:
https://secure.nrdconline.org/08/year_end/

Let me know you'll stand with us during this critical and
dangerous post-election period. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council