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Andrea Ortiz
City Council Ward 7
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A new study from the nonpartisan
Environmental Integrity Project reports that
the EPA has filed 75 percent fewer civil law-
suits against polluters during the first three
years of Bush’s presidency than it did during
Clinton’s last three years in office.
“I think what we’ve seen consistently
from President Bush is the prioritizing of
industry,” says Christiensen. “And that’s
been a systematic effort. The Bush adminis-
tration has put so many industrial lobbyists
in government agencies, and they are there
to undermine every environmental protec-
tion that they’ve had to fight as lobbyists.”
enforcement against polluters and shifted the
tab for cleanup from industry to taxpayers.
The result: people are now breathing smog-
gier air, drinking dirtier water and living in
more toxic environments than they did four
years ago. According to the Center for
Disease Control, 100 million Americans
now live with some form of chronic disease,
and the numbers are rising.
“Bush has taken us back to the old days
when it was ‘environment versus economy’
instead of linking environmental concerns
with public health,” says Christiensen.
Kerry’s perspective on the environment
is quite different. Since entering the Senate
According to a 2004 EPA
Inspector General report,
one in four Americans now
lives within four miles of a
toxic waste site.
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Industrial leaders often protest environ-
mental regulations on the grounds that the
science backing them is faulty or inconclu-
sive. “Every time industry cries wolf,” says
Christiensen, “we see this administration
taking industrial claims on face value and
implementing them rather than listening to
the analyses and the science from the EPA.”
That means that polluters, and the Bush
administration, will get away with poisoning
countless Americans — unless Bush is
defeated on Nov. 2.
F RESH A IR
When it comes to the stewardship of
America’s natural resources and their impacts
on human wellness, John Kerry and Bush are
as different as a river and a cesspool.
From Bush’s first day in office, he has
worked to make life easier for some of the
filthiest industries in the nation. His adminis-
tration eased emission regulations, slackened
Pro-Education
Pro-Health Care
Pro-Jobs
Pro-Clean Air
Pro-Clean Water
in 1985, Kerry’s votes have consistently sup-
ported environmentally responsible legisla-
tion and opposed harmful laws. During his
career as a Massachusetts senator, Kerry has
repeatedly introduced legislation to promote
cleaner air, water and soil. He advocates for
the public’s right to know about the presence
of persistent toxic chemicals in their com-
munities, and he fought to re-instate
Superfund’s “polluter pays” principle. He
supports government subsidies to develop
renewable energy resources, and he pushes
for the U.S. to engage with the international
community to combat global warming.
“John Kerry has a 20-year record in the
Senate of standing up for clean air and clean
water,” says Christiensen. “What I see in
John Kerry is a man who has backbone and
is willing to stand up even to members of his
own party when he feels it’s right. He lets his
faith guide his treatment of our environment
as a moral value.”
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