George W. Bush Ignores Environment

Corporations are responsible ... to treat their workers fairly, and leave the air and waters clean," he said.  

(Yeah right, "trust" the corporations to do the right thing.)

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Subject:  Republican Presidential Hopeful Basically Ignores Environment-----
Date:  Sat, 05 Aug 2000 17:45:26 -0400
From:  Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>

Republican Presidential Hopeful Bush Ignores Environment - For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug2000/2000L-08-04-01.html

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, August 4, 2000 (ENS) - The environment appears to be a non-issue for the Republican presidential nominee, Texas Governor George W. Bush.

In his nomination acceptance speech last night at the Republican National Convention, Bush mentioned the environment only twice.

The first mention of human treatment of natural resources came in Governor Bush's assessment of the impact his generation has had on America.

"My generation tested limits," Bush said, "and our country, in some ways, is better for it."

"Women are now treated more equally. Racial progress has been steady, if still too slow. We are learning to protect the natural world around us. We will continue this progress, and we will not turn back," he told convention delegates.

In a speech that focused mainly on family values, education and taxes, Governor Bush mentioned the environment once more.

"Corporations are responsible ... to treat their workers fairly, and leave the air and waters clean," he said.

The Gore campaign rebuttal did not mention the environment at all.

The environmental section of the Republican Party platform finalized on Monday, celebrates the advances of recent decades, including improved air and water quality and restored wetlands, and scales back past criticisms of the Endangered Species Act.

The draft proposes tax breaks for residential use of solar power and also supports allowing oil exploration and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Anne Callison, Colorado director of Republicans for Environmental Protection, said her group has offered for months to help the party craft some greener planks for its environmental platform, but were repeatedly turned away.

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