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more than 300 crimes against nature by george w. bush
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march 7, 2001
fish and wildlife service withdraws report calling for protection of endangered
salmonids
march 9, 2001
bush appoints oil and mining lobbyist as deputy secretary of interior
april 9, 2001
bush budget proposal cuts $500 million from epa
august 2, 2001
army corps of engineers kills plan to protect missouri river wildlife by changing
stream flows
august 8, 2001
army corps of engineers weakens wetlands protections by slackening permit
requirements
november 2, 2001
army corps of engineers retreats from policy of "no net loss" of wetlands
november 5, 2001
bush signs bill to boost spending for national forests, but with harmful logging
riders
december 3, 2001
army corps of engineers decides not to decommission snake river dams in pacific
northwest
january 9, 2002
administration backs hydrogen-car research, but most hydrogen to come from fossil
fuels
february 4, 2002
bush slashes environmental-education spending
february 4, 2002
bush budget proposes cutting $1 billion from environmental spending
february 4, 2002
bush budget proposes $404 million to support timber sales in national forests
february 11, 2002
environmentalists sue park service for allowing motorized vehicles in georgia
wilderness
april 1, 2002
deadline passes for administration to set first new fuel-economy standards since
1996
april 11, 2002
army corps of engineers approves mining limestone in 5,400 acres of florida's
everglades
may 3, 2002
new epa rules allow mining operations to dump waste in waterways
june 3, 2002
oil drilling leases on more than 500,000 acres in alaska signed by interior
department
june 7, 2002
interior secretary rejects proposal to limit offshore oil drilling in california
july 1, 2002
bush administration cuts funding for toxic cleanups to half of that requested by
epa
july 2, 2002
bush administration rescinds 4 million acres of protection for endangered
california frog
august 7, 2002
epa proposes weakened water-cleanups; asks for "voluntary" efforts
september 3, 2002
white house asks exemption from freedom of information act in energy-task-force
suit
september 4, 2002
federal officials reject call to add white marlin to endangered list
september 9, 2002
states' epa air-quality inspections shown to have dropped by 34 percent
october 1, 2002
fish and wildlife service reverses order to increase missouri river flow to
protect species
october 3, 2002
conservationists urge white house to release $36.5 million in conservation funds
for farmlands
october 4, 2002
bureau of land management approves largest oil and gas drilling exploration ever
in utah
october 8, 2002
epa water administrator says war on terror leaves little money for water cleanup
october 8, 2002
bush stacks panel on lead poisoning with people tied to the lead industry
october 8, 2002
federal workers reveal memo from epa chief encouraging them to support president
when off-duty
october 9, 2002
bush administration sides with auto industry in suit against california's emission
rules
october 15 2002
superfund cleanups drop to 42 per year from average of 76 under clinton, report
shows
november 1, 2002
bush administration threatens withdrawal from historic un population accord
november 5, 2002
polluters paid 64 percent less in fines under bush than in last two clinton years,
report shows
december 2, 2002
bush administration plan for oil drilling off california coast ruled illegal by
federal judges
december 4, 2002
bush administration asks for five more years of study before acting on global
warming
january 6, 2003
bureau of land management rule change gives states leeway for new roads in
wildlands
march 4, 2003
national park service slaughters 231 yellowstone bison
march 7, 2003
paul wolfowitz tells military leaders to find reasons to exempt military from
environmental rules
april 1, 2003
bush administration drops court battle to allow california offshore drilling
april 1, 2003
bush administration barely raises suv gas mileage requirements, to 1.5 mpg more by
2007
april 3, 2003
bureau of reclamation again diverts water from klamath river, where salmonid kill
occurred
april 4, 2003
new u.s.�mexico pollution treaty signed, but lacks funding
april 7, 2003
bush administration asks un to remove yellowstone from endangered world heritage
status
april 8, 2003
protection plan for 76-mile stretch of california coast abandoned by national park
service
april 9, 2003
interior department paves way for new roads on federal lands in utah
may 2, 2003
vehicle fuel economy drops to 22-year low of 20.8 mpg, says epa report
may 2, 2003
permits for cross-border power lines from mexican power plants illegal, says
federal judge
may 5, 2003
navy's use of sonar causes "stampede"�and possibly death�of marine mammals in
puget sound
may 7, 2003
epa drops "senior death discount" calculation (see december 18, 2002)
june 2, 2003
energy department announces$2 billion to $4 billion plan to build new "mini" nukes
june 3, 2003
energy department funds study on how to ease effects of global warming for alaska
oil drillers
june 5, 2003
forest service plan would triple logging limits in california's sierra nevada
june 9, 2003
usda reverses clinton ban on most logging and roadbuilding on 58.5 million acres
july 1, 2003
autopsies link navy sonar to porpoise deaths, environmentalists charge
july 8, 2003
federal court rejects cheney's argument for keeping energy-task-force records
secret
august 8, 2003
bush administration settlement of timber suit could double logging in northwest
september 2, 2003
epa weakens ban on selling polluted sites by reinterpreting law
september 2, 2003
epa refuses to regulate ballast-water discharges from ships
september 4, 2003
epa finds 274 violations of laws for dumping mountaintop-mining debris
october 1, 2003
bush fails to renew energy-conservation program that saved government $300 million
a year
october 6, 2003
epa rules that farmers can't sue pesticide makers if chemicals fail to meet stated
claims
november 4, 2003
superfund cleanups lag for third straight year
november 4, 2003
environmentalists criticize revised everglades-recovery plan for failing to ensure
natural water flow
december 3, 2003
bush signs "healthy forests" bill: more logging, less species protection on
millions of acres
december 4, 2003
epa seeks to reclassify mercury as "nontoxic"
december 5, 2003
bureau of land management proposes weakening rules for grazing livestock on
federal land
december 9, 2003
federal violation notices to polluters down almost 60 percent; almost 30 percent
fewer fines
january 1, 2004
only 50 companies agree to bush administration's voluntary plan to cut global-
warming emissions
january 8, 2004
$175 million superfund shortfall prevents cleanups at 11 sites, slows down others
january 7, 2004
white house proposes overturning ban on mining near streams
january 9, 2004
pentagon to seek more environmental exemptions
january 9, 2004
forest service limits citizens' right to challenge logging plans by appeal or in
court
january, 21 2004
interior secretary asks to triple number of gas-drilling permits in wyoming
february 2, 2004
bush budget proposes $10 million cut in funds for endangered species
february 5, 2004
epa admits twice as many children (630,000) in danger from mercury exposure
february 6, 2004
clean air act changes undermining enforcement, says former epa official
february 9, 2004
energy development allowed inside colorado and utah's dinosaur national monument
march 3, 2004
administration proposes to relax rules on killing wolves in idaho and montana
march 9, 2004
358 conservation scientists urge administration to halt plan to import endangered
species
april 1, 2004
bush administration worked behind scenes to weaken european union chemical safety
rules
april 1, 2004
mining whistleblower accuses bush administration of cover-up in huge coal-sludge
spill
april 2, 2004
bush administration sells 155 acres in colorado to phelps dodge corporation for
$875
april 6, 2004
epa weakens safety rules for rat poison at industry's behest
april 7, 2004
white house downplays effects of mercury from coal-fired power plants
april 8, 2004
interior secretary allows aerial hunting of alaska wolves to continue
april 9, 2004
interior department blocks release of data on oil drilling to environmental
working group
may 3, 2004
power companies have raised $6.6 million for bush, republicans, report says
june 1, 2004
federal court rejects epa's proposed snowmobile standards
june 1, 2004
administration delays greater protection for marbled murrelet to benefit timber
industry
june 2, 2004
exemption of military from migratory-bird-protection rules proposed by
administration
june 2, 2004
new epa rules allow more fine-particle pollution from 1,000 industrial plants
june 3, 2004
bush's 2005 budget zeroes out funding for research on abrupt climate change
june 7, 2004
bush wins ruling to allow mexican trucks into u.s. without meeting clean-air
standards
june 8, 2004
reduction in snake and columbia river water releases, harming northwest salmon,
announced
july 8, 2004
bush team pushes one of biggest timber sales in u.s. history under guise of fire
protection