President Bush claims to have ecological-friendly policies. I strongly disagree. I believe he has an anti-environmental policies, which can be seen in his contact with big utility and power industries. Time after time Bush has either revised or abolished existing laws to make it easier for big utility and energy industries to get around the laws, which were created to protect our environment. These laws were developed over time to rehabilitate and protect our air, water, and land, so that future generations will be able to survive. I truly believe David Brower would be the strongest protestor of President Bush in the upcoming election. Brower respected the land and would harshly oppose what Bush is doing to our environment. President Bush’s belief that big industries should be ab

President Bush has the same attitude about clean water as he did towards clean air. He suspended regulations that minimize raw sewage dumping his first month in office in January of 2001. This suspension allowed for untreated sewage to be dumped in almost any waterway in the country. The same EPA budget cut that restricted cleaning up our air, also made it close to impossible to clean up contaminated water under President Bush’s watch. The substantial cut made by the president took almost 6% of the EPA’s overall annual budget, or close to $500 million (reference #3). The water pollution continued under Bush’s administration over the next two years. In January 2002, President Bush posed a significant threat to the Clean Water Act by announcing a new proposal. Bush’s proposal allowed the United States Army to be exempt from environmental conditions, that were developed in 2000 to protect our nation’s wetlands, which would allow more dumping to occur with no consequences. Personally, I think the greatest environmental water defeat came in August of 2002. The EPA, under President Bush’s guidance, unveiled a plan to make a key provision to the Clean Water Act. The provision would allow for the Total Maximum Daily Load to be increased by allowing more discharge without clean up policies and the fifty states would also be allowed to remove rivers and streams from clean up lists (reference #3). The Total Maximum Daily Load is a program that monitors and sets how many pollutants may be present in one body of water per day.

le to use the land to mine and drill for resources can most closely be compared to John Park from Part I of John McPhee’s Encounter with the Archdruid. They both believe in multiple use of the land. The only difference between Park and Bush is the fact that Park was well knowledgeable with nature, where Bush is most likely not.

One issue in particular has many Americans divided: drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is approximately 19.6 million acres of land that is located in the northeastern corner of Alaska (reference #4). President Bush has supported drilling there from when the very first proposal was announced. Research has shown that many animals will be left homeless and eventually become extinct once drilling begins. Some of those animals include the caribou, musk oxen, polar bear, grizzly bear, arctic fox, wolverines, and snow geese (reference # 6). This mass extinction will result because of the added pollution from oil spills, emissions from large machines and transport vehicles, and the simple fact that these animals will have no where to go. In February of 2003, President Bush submitted his yearly budget to Congress, whic

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