Bush & Environment

Bush & Environment: " Excerpts of statements made by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the Tavis Smiley show, Tuesday September 28th 2004, relating to his latest book, Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering The Country and Hijacking Our Democracy.
Kennedy:
'I've been bipartisan for 20 years as an environmental advocate, 'cause I don't think there's any such thing as Republican children or Democratic children. I don't want the environment to become the province of a single political party. But you can't talk honestly about the environment today in any context without speaking critically of this president. This is the worst environmental president we've had in American history without any rival. If you look at The National Resources Defence Council's web site , you'll see over 400 major environmental rollbacks that have been promoted by the White House over the last 3 1/2 years as part of a deliberate, concerted attempt to eviscerate 30 years of environmental law.'
They don't want the public to know about this, because even the Republicans would turn against them, and this is what their own polling shows, and I show this in the book. And so they conceal their agenda, this radical agenda behind an Orwellian rhetoric. When they want to destroy the forest, they call it the Healthy Forest Act. When they want to destroy the air, they call it the Clear Skies Bill.
But they've -- most insidiously, they've put polluters in charge of the agencies that are supposed to protect Americans from pollution. The head of Public Lands in this country is a mining industry lobbyist who believes that public lands are unconstitutional. The head of the Forest Service is probably the most rapacious timber industry lobbyist in history, Mark Ray. The head of the air division of EPA is a utility lobbyist who spent his whole life representing the worst air polluters in America. The head of Superfund is a woman whose last job was teaching corporations how to evade Superfund. The second in command of EPA is a Monsanto lobbyist.