Elmer,
More lies from the head slimeball:
bushfiles.com
You've got to ask the question, is the air cleaner since I became Governor? And the answer is yes.
- George W. Bush, May 1999
That's not a stretcher -- that's a whopper. If you want to get strong about it, it's a perverse distortion of reality, since Bush is, to put it mildly, part of the problem.
By no known standard has the air of Texas improved under Governor Bush, nor has anything else involving the environment. He personally intervened to protect major air polluters in the state, and his appointees in this area are staggeringly dreadful.
According to the tri-national North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation, set up by NAFTA, Texas pollutes more than any other state or Canadian province. That record includes air pollution and water pollution. We're Number One.
And according to records kept by the Environmental Defense Fund, Texas is also number one in:
overall toxic releases
recognized carcinogens in the air
suspected carcinogens in the air
developmental toxins in the air (affecting brain and nervous-system development in children)
cancer risk.
And number one in ten other categories of dangerous air pollutants in the environment, too.
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