http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/ en-us 2007-02-16T08:37:18-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000326.php Last fall, Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney testified before Congress that "simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior." [1] New revelations about the relationship between two high-ranking administration... Department of Interior betsyensley 2007-02-16T08:37:18-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000325.php Environmental groups are very concerned about the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to allow the application of pesticides on waterways. Before this exemption, a permit under the Clean Water Act was required for pesticides applied on or near waterways. “More... Clean Water lisagrob 2006-12-18T08:14:39-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000324.php Here’s something that will take your breath away. The EPA, charged with protecting our environment, has adopted new air quality standards that actually put our environment and health at greater risk. At issue is the standard for annual releases of... Clean Air lisagrob 2006-11-17T06:46:44-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000323.php Even for an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers to undermining (coal and oil lobbyist J. Stephen Griles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior is one of dozens of... Energy lisagrob 2006-11-02T07:30:58-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000322.php Even for an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers to undermining (coal and oil lobbyist J. Stephen Griles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior is one of dozens of... Energy lisagrob 2006-11-02T07:02:10-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000321.php “Evangelicals… comprise between 40 to 50 percent of… the Republican base, and so if the largest single population group in the Republican coalition were to say, ‘this is important. We want you to take, as leaders in the Republican party,... Climate Change lisagrob 2006-10-24T07:11:55-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000320.php As if flying the friendly skies weren’t scary enough. Now it appears that aviation poses hazards to those of us here on the ground. In the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the fields where we... Clean Air lisagrob 2006-10-12T07:01:26-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000319.php The Bush administration is quietly pressing for a free trade agreement with Peru that will put the Amazon rainforest – often described as one of the earth’s lungs – on the chopping block. Because the Amazon rainforest - one of... Forests lisagrob 2006-09-29T09:42:59-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000318.php Thanks to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, along with Katrina and this summer’s blistering heat waves, the threats posed by global warming have morphed from a far-fetched possibility to a clear and present danger in the minds of voters, scientists,... Climate Change lisagrob 2006-09-15T09:53:31-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000317.php NOTE: Today's Washington Post story, Male Bass Across Region Found to Be Bearing Eggs, suggests that serious water pollution is affecting the entire Potomac river basin not just the Shenandoah river tributary described in the piece below. This underscores the... Clean Water lisagrob 2006-09-06T08:47:15-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000316.php As you fill your tank today at $3.00-and-counting per gallon or contemplate this coming winter’s heating bills, consider this: Big Oil is making even more money than you know. Not just from the obscenely high price of gasoline, but from... lisagrob 2006-08-30T13:47:44-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000315.php There is nothing more haunting than the sound of a train whistle. There is also nothing more terrifying. Thanks to federal resistance to regulating transport of toxic chemicals, residents of rail hub cities across the country don’t know if the... Toxics lisagrob 2006-08-15T07:43:56-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000314.php For more than two years now, the Bush administration has been seeking to place the Pentagon's top lawyer, William Haynes II, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (see BushGreenwatch, 12/18/03 and 3/16/04). Haynes' nomination stalled for... Judicial Nominees lisagrob 2006-07-11T10:06:14-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000313.php Apparently rushing to lock in a long-sought goal before the fall elections, GOP congressional leaders may bring to a vote within weeks a proposal that could literally wipe out any federal program that protects public health or the environment--or for... betsyensley 2006-06-23T09:51:43-08:00 http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000312.php [The piece below was published this week by syndicated columnist Ed Flattau of Global Horizons] Whatever happened to the Republican Party of Teddy Roosevelt, a political party distinguished by its forward-looking environmental policy? Today, we have the College Republican National... Climate Change betsyensley 2006-06-01T06:00:08-08:00