Bush Orders New 'Cooperative' Environmental Policy

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON (Reuters)

President Bush ordered five federal agencies on Thursday to give state, local and tribal governments, private institutions and individuals more of a say in environmental policy.

In what some environmentalists rejected as a campaign ploy, Bush signed an executive order instituting a policy of "cooperative conservation" between the federal government and local parties on the broad issues of environmental protection and use of natural resources. ..

Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, one of Bush's environmental critics, dismissed the measure as an election-year stunt.

"This executive order, issued at a campaign appearance in a battleground state, will do about as much for conservation as George Bush's 'compassionate conservatism' has done for compassion," Pope said. ..

"It seems like another way to allow unfettered access to lands by private industries," Rob Perks, spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council. ..

[billybob537]

1. Bush must be worried

It's too late to do the right thing, This dog wont hunt.

[nosmokes]

2. i am somewhat less than reassured there will be any

trees left at all out side of monocultured plantations if we allow these guys to stay in power. why even bother with congress? just go ahead and give the law books to the corporations. sheesh.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. Heh well it is something he can tout in his speech at the convention

no doubt he will.

[MasonJar]

4. He is the biggest lying, phony hypocrite on earth.

[TaleWgnDg]

5. instead of all this polishing and preening . . .

I believe the scientific community would truly enjoy no more deceit, no more coercion, no more subterfuge, and no more "junk science" from the whitehouse . . . plus a few good people as the various heads of federal agency commissions. :eyes:


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" Dean describes a deeply flawed Bush White
House that he says 'spends far more time crafting the
president's public image and working on the politics of
re-election, than on truly addressing the business of the
American people.' " -- Los Angeles Times reporter John
M. Glionna, May 9, 2004, "Then and Now Nixon's Ex-Counsel
Blasts Secrecy of Bush White House," quoting John W. Dean
from Dean's new book entitled "Worse Than Watergate."
Dean was the star Congressional witness in the Watergate
impeachment hearings of Nixon in 1974.
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[goforit]

6. He's loosing the Center Repugs,.much less the hearts of the entire world

Ultimately.....The Bush clan will FAIL!!!!!

[Massacure]

7. What about Kyoto Mr. Bush???

[hatrack]

8. Great - another big green cowflop

Straight from the puckered bovine Bush bunghole of campaign season bullshit. Yeah, Chimpy, you've got just truckloads of environmental credibility lying around ready to deploy.

Fucking douchebag.

[Erika]

9. Sure Bush Cares About The Environment!

He promised CO2 reductions before he flipflopped after he took office. He's overturned every environmental friendly policy since he took office and now prior to re-election he's now friendly environmental again. What an ass.

[Snazzy]

10. Monday it was "Sensitive" not "cooperative"

Guess he finally got the memo.

"The best thing is to come up with a comprehensive energy strategy that encourages conservation, encourages environmentally sensitive exploration for natural resources in our own hemisphere," Bush said.

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