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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Green who wrote (49591)	9/21/2004 12:59:45 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I much prefer a cautious, conservative Kerry to a reckless, arrogant and incompetent Bush.

To: Don Green who wrote (49591)	9/21/2004 1:29:48 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 81568

<<...America knows how to deal with Bush as bad as he is...>> Do you want to deal with Mr. Bush's reckless lack of protection for our environment...? Our nation and future generations CAN NOT afford 4 more years of the Bush / Cheney regime... Rebutting the White House on Environmental Accomplishments environment2004.org <<...Hazardous Waste Sites WHITE HOUSE CLAIM: “Fulfilling a commitment he made when he ran for President, President Bush signed historic bipartisan brownfields legislation in 2002, accelerating the cleanup of brownfields to better protect public health, create jobs, and revitalize communities.” REALITY: Americans are less protected from toxic and hazardous wastes than they were three short years ago. The White House takes credit for legislation enacted by Congress to promote an industrial cleanup program initiated by previous administrations that helps convert waste sites into reusable land, such as commercial space, shopping malls and industrial complexes. It is worth emphasizing that this is the only point the White House could devise in this arena, and even so, the Bush administration had to stretch “fulfilling a commitment” beyond any reasonable meaning. The Brownfields law provides funding to states, but does not set federal standards for public health and environment protection or deed restrictions on sites where toxins may linger after cleanup has been completed. The reality is – as usual – quite different from what Bush claims: • Today, one in four Americans lives within four miles of a toxic waste site.(1) • The truth is that the Bush administration has let the Superfund, which funds the cleanup of our nation’s worst toxic and hazardous waste sites, go bankrupt. Under President Bush’s leadership, toxic waste cleanups have been underfunded by nearly $300 million a year since 2001.(2) • Worse yet, President Bush decided that the Superfund, which was being funded by contributions from the corporate polluters that caused these life-threatening incidences, should instead be funded by taxpayers. He stopped requiring corporate polluters to pay into the Superfund. • The Bush administration announced that it would complete cleanups at 75 sites in 2001, but finished only 47. The EPA finished only 42 site cleanups in 2002 and 40 in 2003- less than half as many as the average during the last four years of the Clinton administration. (3) • 2003 was the second year in a row that the EPA had too little money to clean up all the sites on the Superfund. (4) • As a result of the Superfund drying up, work slated to begin this summer at three Colorado Superfund sites has been put off indefinitely. And this year marks the first time that none of Colorado’s 22 Superfund sites will receive any federal funding for cleanups this year that state and federal officials requested, according to a recent article.(5) • In 2003, the EPA began a rulemaking process to reclassify industrial materials as recyclable in order to exempt more hazardous waste from the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). • Moreover, last year, the EPA quietly lifted a 25-year-old ban on the sale of land contaminated with cancer-causing PCBs. (6)...>>