Environment: More than 300 Crimes against Nature

Here's the record of the last administration, before Bush received his fanciful "mandate." Get ready for worse. It's going to be a bumpy ride:

Source: Natural Resources Defense Council

SIERRA magazine, September/October 2004

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra

January 20, 2001 White House freezes all rules set at end of
Clinton term - including tougher ones for raw sewage

January 20, 2001 Bush proposes opening Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling

February 12, 2001 Energy Department puts off enforcing new
efficiency standards for air conditioners

February 15, 2001 EPA delays new rule protecting wetlands
from mining and development

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

March 13, 2001 Bush reneges on campaign promise to reduce
carbon dioxide emissions

March 16, 2001 Bush administration refuses to defend in court
rule protecting 58 million acres of wild forest

March 20, 2001 Bush withdraws proposed stricter limits on
arsenic in drinking water

March 28, 2001 Bush administration rejects Kyoto Protocol on
Climate Change

April 9, 2001 Bush budget proposal cuts $500 million from EPA

May 10, 2001 Bush administration refuses to name industry
participants in Cheney energy task force

May 12, 2001 Bureau of Land Management allows continued
grazing on endangered-tortoise land in California

May 17, 2001 Bush releases energy plan heavily favoring
fossil fuels and nukes

May 17, 2001 Forest Service reduces citizen and scientific
participation in decision-making

May 22, 2001 EPA officially suspends stricter limits for
arsenic in drinking water

June 19, 2001 States and others sue Energy Department over
air-conditioner rules (see February 12, 2001)

June 21, 2001 Timber lobbyist Mark Rey appointed to key post
in Forest Service

July 2, 2001 Oil drilling off Florida coast proposed by Bush
administration

July 23, 2001 Bush budget proposes cutting 270 EPA inspector
jobs

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

August 12, 2001 National forests opened to roadbuilding and
logging by Forest Service rule changes

August 14, 2001 EPA delays tougher rules for toxic power-
plant emissions

August 17, 2001 Federal judge's decision to ban drilling off
California's coast appealed by administration

August 27, 2001 Cattle still grazing on tortoise habitat in
California, despite BLM agreement to move them

August 28, 2001 Bush administration proposes missile-defense
test installation in Pacific; environmentalists sue

August 28, 2001 Bush administration reconsiders ban on
recycling radioactive metals into consumer products

September 13, 2001 EPA lies about Manhattan hazards after
9/11, calls area safe despite extreme toxic pollution

September 20, 2001 Forest Service proposes further reduction
in citizen participation in policymaking

October 25, 2001 Interior Department weakens environmental
rules for mining operations

October 31, 2001 Arsenic flip-flop: Under public pressure,
EPA adopts higher standard after all (see May 22, 2001)

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

November 29, 2001 Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park reopens
winter lakes to snowmobiles

December 3, 2001 Army Corps of Engineers decides not to
decommission Snake River dams in Pacific Northwest

December 14, 2001 Administration announces weaker standards
for nuclear waste storage at Nevada's Yucca Mountain

December 14, 2001 Forest Service announces more roadbuilding
on undeveloped forestlands

January 9, 2002 Administration backs hydrogen-car research,
but most hydrogen to come from fossil fuels

January 10, 2002 Study shows big drop in enforcement of
environmental laws under Bush

January 10, 2002 Bush administration fights in court for new
oil drilling off California coast

January 14, 2002 Report shows Interior secretary squelched
her own agency's criticism of weaker wetlands rules

January 14, 2002 Wetlands protections weakened nationwide in
flip-flop from Bush campaign promise

January 14, 2002 Park Service okays more oil drilling in
Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve

January 21, 2002 BLM preliminarily approves gas drilling in
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, Montana

January 22, 2002 Forest Service sues to overturn ban on
salvage logging in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest

January 28, 2002 Bush supports Cheney's refusal to release
secret energy-task-force records

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

February 14, 2002 Bush gives power plants ten more years to
cut mercury and sulfur dioxide emissions

February 14, 2002 White House unveils global-warming plan
that lets C02 emissions continue at present rate

February 15, 2002 Bush endorses plan to store 77,000 tons of
nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain

February 15, 2002 Forest Service approves mining exploration
in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest

February 16, 2002 Bush administration asks court to delay
endangered-species protection in California

February 19, 2002 Phaseout of snowmobiles in national parks
delayed

February 22, 2002 BLM proposes to let states allow vehicles
in previously off-limits federal lands

February 23, 2002 Bush's budget asks that taxpayers pay for
Superfund cleanups instead of polluters

February 27, 2002 Top EPA official resigns to protest Bush's
effort to weaken rules for polluting industries

February 27, 2002 Federal judge orders Bush administration to
release Cheney's secret energy-task-force records

March 12, 2002 Bush administration belatedly complies with
court order to protect desert tortoise

March 18, 2002 EPA exempts large category of power plants
from lawsuits for Clean Air Act violations

March 25, 2002 Discovery that White House misspent $135,612
of clean-energy funds to print its energy plan

March 29, 2002 Pentagon seeks exemption from environmental
laws

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

April 14, 2002 White House kills program that funded
environmental research for graduate students

April 22, 2002 EPA citizen-watchdog resigns in protest,
charging that agency |officials muzzled him

May 3, 2002 New EPA rules allow mining operations to dump
waste in waterways

May 13, 2002 Administration asks judge not to limit waste-
dumping from mountaintop mines

May 13, 2002 Bush signs farm bill that pays big subsidies to
polluting agricultural operations

May 21, 2002 Ban on mining in and around Oregon's Siskiyou
National Forest ends

May 23, 2002 Energy Department cuts air-conditioner
efficiency standards

May 24, 2002 Bush-Putin summit produces nuclear treaty that
puts no long-term limit on nuclear weapons

May 24, 2002 Bush administration drops plan |for contractors
to put environmental protection into projects

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

June 13, 2002 Missouri River restoration halted indefinitely
by Army Corps of Engineers

June 13, 2002 EPA proposes weakening clean-air rules for
17,000 power plants

June 13, 2002 Judge halts Bush administration move to end
habitat protection on 500,000 acres in California

June 17, 2002 Judge rejects Army Corps of Engineers plan to
allow mine-waste dumping

June 24, 2002 EPA abandons plan to clean up storm-water
pollution

June 25, 2002 Bush administration blames wildfires on
environmentalists

June 25, 2002 Snowmobiling allowed to continue in national
parks, though with some restrictions

June 25, 2002 EPA ombudsman testifies Bush administration
pressured him to halt study of radiation standards

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

July 10, 2002 Judge orders administration to protect 400,000
Calif. acres for endangered Alameda whipsnake

July 15, 2002 Navy given permit to use low-frequency sonar, a
known threat to whales

July 17, 2002 Bush administration opposes Senate bill to
require 10 percent renewable energy by 2020

July 22, 2002 Bush's State Department says it will withhold
$34 million from UN family-planning program

July 25, 2002 Another top EPA official quits in protest

July 26, 2002 Bush administration backs congressional
proposal to exempt companies from disclosing hazards

August 7, 2002 EPA proposes weakened water-cleanups; asks for
"voluntary" efforts

August 15, 2002 Conservatives praise Bush for skipping United
Nations summit on sustainable development

August 22, 2002 Interior Department claims new power plant
won't harm air at Mammoth Cave National Park, Ky.

August 22, 2002 Bush calls for increased logging in name of
fire prevention

August 27, 2002 U.S. opposes targets for renewable energy use
at World Summit on Sustainable Development

August 29, 2002 Interior Department approves billion-dollar
plan to store water under Mojave Desert

August 30, 2002 Foe of ecological restoration Allan
Fitzsimmons named head of federal wildfire prevention

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

September 13, 2002 EPA weakens proposed anti-pollution
standards for off-road vehicles

September 15, 2002 EPA deletes global-warming section from
pollution report

September 17, 2002 Bush replacing most scientists on
chemical-hazard panel with those tied to chemical industry

September 18, 2002 Bush executive order cuts citizen
involvement in review of road and airport projects

September 21, 2002 Killing of 34,000 salmonids results from
federal diversion of Klamath River water in Oregon

September 27, 2002 Interior secretary okays gold mining on
sacred Indian site in California

September 30, 2002 New EPA water-quality report shows U.S.
waters are getting dirtier

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 10, 2002 Administration failed to assess
vulnerability of chemical facilities to terrorists, GAO says

October 15 2002 Superfund cleanups drop to 42 per year from
average of 76 under Clinton, report shows

October 16, 2002 Judge finds Forest Service violates
Endangered Species Act by not protecting spotted-owl habitat

October 17, 2002 Bush administration told by federal judge to
release energy documents in Sierra Club lawsuit

October 31, 2002 EPA halts funding at seven Superfund sites

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

November 11, 2002 Bush administration supports renewed
elephant-ivory trade

November 12, 2002 National Park Service proposal would allow
1,100 snowmobiles a day in Yellowstone, Grand Teton

November 21, 2002 Natural-gas drilling at Padre Island
National Seashore in Texas approved

November 22, 2002 EPA proceeds with weakening Clean Air Act
rules for power plants

November 27, 2002 Forest Service proposes rule changes to
increase logging, grazing, mining on 192 million acres

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

December 12, 2002 Federal court rules against administration,
upholds roadless rule for 58.5 million acres

December 12, 2002 White House proposes tiny increase in
automobile fuel economy: 1.5 mpg in five years

December 13, 2002 Federal judge blocks Army Corps of
Engineers' Snake River dredging plan in Pacific Northwest

December 16, 2002 EPA's new factory-farm rule favors big
agribusiness polluters

December 18, 2002 White House budget office values elderly
lives 63 percent less in environmental cost-benefit analysis

December 20, 2002 Federal judge blocks Interior Department
from permitting oil exploration in eastern Utah

December 30, 2002 EPA proposes two-year exemption of oil and
gas industry from storm-water pollution rules

January 6, 2003 Bureau of Land Management rule change gives
states leeway for new roads in wildlands

January 10, 2003 Bush budget requests $6.4 billion for Energy
Department's nuclear weapons activity

January 10, 2003 Bush administration proposes pulling federal
safeguards from 20 percent of U.S. wetlands

January 13, 2003 Pentagon plans to ask for exemption from
environmental laws on millions of acres

January 16, 2003 Environmental personnel scratched from USAID
policy bureau

January 17, 2003 Interior Department proposes oil exploration
on up to 9 million acres of Alaska's North Slope

January 19, 2003 Pentagon continues lobbying for exemptions
from environmental laws

January 21, 2003 EPA refuses to ban weed-killer atrazine, a
possible carcinogen

January 22, 2003 EPA retains unsafe limits for toxic
perchlorates

January 24, 2003 Manatees get federal protection, thanks to
lawsuit settlement

January 27, 2003 Bush administration proposes privatizing
thousands of National Park Service jobs

January 27, 2003 California's giant sequoia threatened by
Forest Service proposal to resume logging nearby

January 29, 2003 Bush administration wins court ruling that
legalizes mountaintop-removal mining permits

January 30, 2003 Bureau of Land Management proposes rollback
of Clinton-era restrictions on grazing

January 30, 2003 Exemptions to phaseout of ozone-destroying
methyl bromide planned by Bush administration

February 11, 2003 EPA drafts new rules to relax toxic-air-
pollution standards

February 20, 2003 National Park Service finalizes rules
allowing snowmobiles in national parks

February 25, 2003 National Academy of Sciences panel strongly
criticizes Bush's global-warming plan

February 27, 2003 Bush's "Clear Skies" plan allows much more
pollution than if Clean Air Act were enforced, critics charge

February 27, 2003 Transportation Department speeds up
environmentally harmful road projects

February 28, 2003 Oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge his "greatest wish," says high-ranking Interior
official

February 28, 2003 Wilderness protection for millions of acres
in Alaska's Tongass forest rejected by Forest Service

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

March 10, 2003 EPA exempts oil and gas industry from
President Clinton's tighter water-pollution rules

March 13, 2003 EPA withdraws another Clinton-era water-
pollution cleanup rule

March 13, 2003 EPA official testifies in Congress in favor of
exempting military from environmental laws

March 18, 2003 EPA allows sludge dumping in Potomac River to
continue for seven more years

March 18, 2003 Fish and Wildlife proposes removing
protections from endangered wolves

March 18, 2003 Federal judge orders Interior Department to
continue protecting manatees

March 18, 2003 GAO again criticizes Bush administration for
failing to reduce security risks at chemical plants

March 25, 2003 Park Service adopts plan for Yellowstone/Teton
allowing1,100 snowmobiles a day

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

April 10, 2003 U.S. Fish and Wildlife signs off on plan to
reopen Imperial Sand Dunes to off-road vehicles

April 20, 2003 Toxic cleanups still lagging: 41 percent fewer
Superfund sites cleaned up by EPA, report says

April 21, 2003 Sharp criticism of Bush administration air-
pollution policies by independent panel

April 24, 2003 White House unveils pro-industry chemical
security bill

April 28, 2003 White House bans EPA from discussing
perchlorate pollution

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)

May 13, 2003 Fish and Wildlife Service signs off on mining in
Montana's Cabinet Mountains Wilderness

May 14, 2003 White House's $247 billion transportation plan
slashes environmental protection

May 14, 2003 EPA proposes easing, delaying smog-control rules

May 21, 2003 Christine Todd Whitman, embattled EPA chief,
resigns

May 30, 2003 Park Service opens Maryland and Virginia's
Assateague Island National Seashore to Jet Skis

May 30, 2003 Forest-fire plan eliminates environmental review
of logging projects under 1,000 acres

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

June 20, 2003 Defense Department reneges on plan to test for
perchlorate pollution at U.S. bases

June 23, 2003 Bush administration again deletes references to
dangers of global warming from EPA report

June 27, 2003 Federal judge halts timber sale in Montana's
Kootenai National Forest

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

July 12, 2003 EPA refuses to regulate perchlorate and other
drinking-water contaminants

July 17, 2003 Energy Department lobbies Congress for law to
get around court ruling on nuke waste

July 17, 2003 Federal judge rules administration must redo
water plan for Oregon/California Klamath River

July 22, 2003 Army Corps of Engineers ruled in contempt for
defying order to change Missouri River flows

July 24, 2003 Bush administration softens demand for
outsourcing of federal jobs, including at national parks

August 8, 2003 Bush administration settlement of timber suit
could double logging in Northwest

August 11, 2003 Bush taps anti-environmental Utah governor
Mike Leavitt to head EPA

August 26, 2003 New EPA rules ignore mercury pollution from
chlorine plant

August 27, 2003 EPA excludes 17,000 facilities from upgrading
pollution controls when installing new equipment

August 29, 2003 U.S. court rules against EPA's loopholes in
mountaintop-removal-mining regulations

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

September 22, 2003 White House's own study concludes benefits
of environmental regulations far outweigh costs

September 23, 2003 Forest Service estimates $2 million lost
in timber sale from Alaska's Tongass

September 24, 2003 White House recommendations would
undermine public participation in environmental planning

September 25, 2003 EPA proposes deal that would let polluting
factory farms avoid prosecution

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

October 10, 2003 Interior Department overturns limits on
acreage where gold mines can dump waste

October 10, 2003 Judge orders Interior Department to stop
stalling on owl habitat protection

October 10, 2003 EPA proposal to allow warmer waters behind
Oregon dams threatens salmonids

October 10, 2003 EPA inspector general criticizes agency for
lax enforcement

October 13, 2003 Bush administration proposes lifting ban on
importing endangered species

October 13, 2003 $18.6 million Forest Service study says
outsourcing its jobs would rarely be cost-effective

October 17, 2003 EPA announces it will not regulate dioxins
in sewage sludge dumped on land

October 31, 2003 EPA declines to restrict use of pesticide
atrazine

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

November 13, 2003 Park Service workers charge that Bush
policies will "destroy the grand legacy of our national
parks"

November 14, 2003 Bush administration loses bid to increase
ozone-depleting methyl bromide

November 18, 2003 Administration admits blame for kill of
34,000 salmonids in Klamath River (see September 21, 2002)

November 18, 2003 EPA proposes looser regulations on dumping
low-level radioactive waste in landfills

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

December 16, 2003 White House abandons plans to weaken Clean
Water Act protections for wetlands

December 17, 2003 Defense Department urged to protect
endangered tortoise during robot race

December 17, 2003 Federal judge overturns administration
decision not to protect orcas in Puget Sound

December 19, 2003 Forest Service opens grizzly bear habitat
to snowmobiles in Montana's Flathead National Forest

December 23, 2003 Forest Service continues to allow logging
in Tongass, world's largest temperate rainforest

December 24, 2003 Federal court blocks EPA plan to weaken
Clean Air Act by exempting power plants from review

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 13, 2004 Federal court overturns Bush
administration's weakening of energy efficiency for air
conditioners

January, 21 2004 Interior secretary asks to triple number of
gas-drilling permits in Wyoming

January 22, 2004 EPA scales back monitoring of smokestack
pollution

January 22, 2004 Interior Department opens 9 million acres on
Alaska's North Slope to oil drilling

January 23, 2004 Forest Service plans to boost logging on up
to 3.2 million acres of Appalachian forests

January 27, 2004 White House says EPA doesn't have to study
pesticide effects on imperiled wildlife

January 29, 2004 Bush administration proposes letting
contractors police federal nuclear-plant safety

January 30, 2004 Parts of EPA's mercury-pollution plan lifted
verbatim from industry memos

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

February 11, 2004 Forest Service plan allows mining, drilling
in Alabama's national forests

February 13, 2004 EPA no longer to require "worst case
scenarios" from industry

February 15, 2004 Forest Service allows poisoning of prairie
dogs in four states

February 16, 2004 White House ignores threat from gasoline
additive MTBE

February 18, 2004 U.S. Navy plans to dredge endangered turtle
habitat in Key West

February 18, 2004 20 Nobel Prize-winning scientists say
administration distorts science for political gain

February 24, 2004 Federal mine-safety official demoted after
questioning mine accident investigation

February 27, 2004 Missouri River management plan ignores fish
protections

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

March 10, 2004 Forest Service hires PR firm to promote Sierra
Nevada plan that would triple logging

March 11, 2004 EPA inspector general says agency's rosy
drinking-water assessments used false data

March 12, 2004 Forest Service relents: no snowmobiles in
grizzly habitat in Montana's Flathead National Forest

March 15, 2004 Court rules BLM illegally opened Montana area
to off-road vehicles

March 16, 2004 EPA approves plan to inject toxic waste
underground in Michigan wells

March 19, 2004 FDA warnings on mercury in tuna not strong
enough, scientists charge

March 24, 2004 NRDC sues Bush administration for withholding
records on perchlorate in drinking water

March 25, 2004 BLM suspends plans for energy development at
Dinosaur National Monument, Colo. and Utah

March 26, 2004 Delay in phaseout of dangerous methyl bromide
pesticide negotiated by United States

March 30, 2004 Federal court orders Bush administration to
release forest-planning documents

March 31, 2004 Federal judge orders Energy Department to
release more Cheney energy-task-force records

March 31, 2004 EPA prosecution of environmental crimes even
weaker under new administrator

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

April 11, 2004 Bush administration budget asks for $35
million cut in lead-poisoning prevention

April 13, 2004 Administration spending more on nuclear
weapons research than in Cold War, report says

April 15, 2004 Fish and Wildlife Service rejects protection
for Yellowstone trumpeter swans

April 19, 2004 39 state attorneys general urge denial of
Pentagon's request for environmental exemptions

April 20, 2004 Yellowstone Park employees advised to wear
hearing protection from snowmobile noise

April 22, 2004 National Council of Churches strongly
criticizes Bush's air-pollution policies

April 28, 2004 USDA weakens organic-food standards, allowing
hormones, feed raised with pesticides

April 28, 2004 Interior Department limits designations of
critical habitat for endangered species

April 29, 2004 Report shows that more than half of all
Americans live in areas with hazardous levels of smog

May 3, 2004 Power companies have raised $6.6 million for
Bush, Republicans, report says

May 12, 2004 Scientists say Yucca Mountain nuclear facility
could leak far sooner than Energy Department claims

May 21, 2004 Whistle-blowing federal biologist quits over
politicized decision-making

May 21, 2004 EPA officials with timber ties weaken toxic
formaldehyde standards for plywood industry

May 26, 2004 USDA backs down, keeps organic-food standards
(see April 28, 2004)

May 27, 2004 U.S. Army retracts order to cut some
environmental-protection practices

May 28, 2004 Army Corps lets sewers, ditches "mitigate" loss
of streams to mountaintop-removal mining

May 28, 2004 A dozen major national parks hit by cutbacks to
visitor services and staffing

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

June 15, 2004 Administration's pro-oil, pro-nuke energy
proposal stalled in Congress

June 24, 2004 Supreme Court ruling allows Cheney to keep
energy-task-force secrets until after election

July 8, 2004 Bush team pushes one of biggest timber sales in
U.S. history under guise of fire protection

July 12, 2004 Administration proposes forcing states to pay
2.5 times more for public transit than for roads

July 12, 2004 Administration to eliminate Clinton-era
roadless rule, ending protections for 58.5 million acres

July 16, 2004 Fish and Wildlife Service to end protection for
eastern wolves and abandon reintroduction plans

July 16, 2004 Bush refuses to release $34 million for
international family planning appropriated by Congress