To waste, to destroy, our natural resources ... will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed"
-Theodore Roosevelt, December 3, 1907

The Bush Administration delayed regulations to reduce arsenic levels in drinking water, repealed forest service regulations on roadless areas, rejected the international global warming treaty, announced support for drilling in the nation's national monuments and broke its campaign promise to require mandatory carbon dioxide emission reductions - all within its first ten weeks in office.1

This administration has continued to actively dismantle environmental protection programs. The Sierra Club calls Bush's "Clear Skies" initiative a smokescreen for more pollution.2 According to the National Natural Resources Defense Council, the administration's "Healthy Forests" initiative exploits the fear of fires in order to gut environmental protections and boost commercial logging.3 These two examples are just the tip of the iceberg.