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The Bottom Line Tons of additional air pollutants permitted to be released by 2020 under Bush's "Clear Skies" plan:
Estimated number of premature deaths that will result:
Estimated amount that Clear Skies-related health problems will cost taxpayers, per year:
Days after Bush took office that he reneged on his campaign promise to regulate CO2
emissions from power plants:
Days after the U.S. Geological Survey released a 12-year study indicating that drilling in the Arctic Refuge would pose "significant harm to wildlife" that the agency reversed itself:
Years that the Bush administration says global warming must be further studied
before substantive action can be taken:
Number of members of the 63-person energy advisory team Bush convened early in his
administration who did not have ties to corporate energy interests:
Amount that energy team members gave to Republican candidates in the 2000 election:
Percentage of "replacement wetlands" developers are required to create that end up failing,
according to the General Accounting Office:
Area, in acres, of wetlands, lakes, and streams opened to development under
a proposal to end federal oversight of "isolated waters":
Area, in acres, of Lake Superior:
Estimated acres of public land the administration announced in April it will
open to logging, road building, and mining:
Acreage of California and Texas, combined:
Number of snowmobiles allowed in Yellowstone National Park this winter, per day:
Percentage of the 360,000 public comments received by the Park Service that were
against repealing the Clinton-era ban on snowmobiles in the park:
Percentage of Superfund cleanup costs paid for by corporate polluters in 1996:
Percentage that will be paid for by taxpayers under Bush's 2004 budget:
Amount at which the EPA historically valued each human life when conducting
economic analyses of proposed regulations:
Amount the EPA considers each person worth as of 2003:
Average annual number of species added to the Endangered and Threatened Species list
between 1991 and 2000:
Number voluntarily added by the Bush administration since taking office:
Grade Bush received on the League of Conservation Voters' 2002 presidential report card:
Grade he received in 2003:
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