So far, the Bush administration has:

• Reduced clean water standards, allowing more mining waste into our streams, more raw sewage into our rivers and more destruction of wetlands.
  
• Slowed or stopped toxic cleanups and opposed making polluters pay for them. The projected taxpayer bill in 2003 is $700 million and more than 1 billion in 2004.
• Allowed the Forest Service to accelerate native and old growth timber sales in the Northwest.
• Approved a permit for the U.S. Navy to blast sonar across as much as 80 percent of the world's oceans. The permit exempts the Navy from the Marine Mammal Protection Act and harms whales, dolphins and other species.
• Allowed energy development at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado.
• Made an additional four million acres available for oil and gas drilling in 2001.
• Eliminated the Clean Air Act's New Source Review program, which would have prevented thousands of tons of additional air pollution.
• Approved plans to ship nuclear waste to Nevada's Yucca Mountain, where it will likely contaminate the area's groundwater.
• Moved to legalize mountaintop removal coal mining. New regulations (now blocked by court ruling) allow waste to be dumped into valleys, clogging streams.
• Rejected the Kyoto Protocol, a global treaty to reduce climate change.
• Appointed nearly three dozen former energy industry executives, lobbyists and lawyers who have helped carry out energy policies without waiting for congressional approval.

Summer Seige: Public lands under attack across the nation