It wants to gut the Endangered Species Act. It has already gutted, in its budget, programs by the National Zoo which are successfully restoring endangered and threatened species to their native habitats. That same budget would transfer substantial environmental protection from the EPA to the individual states, ignoring a history of poor state protection of the environment that created the EPA in the Nixon era in the first place. The best that lovers of the environment can do on Earth Day is to vow to slow Bush Inc. and derail its polluting agenda by opposing its budget cuts, its energy plans, and its efforts to water down environmental laws in Congress. On Earth Day plant a tree and trim back a Bush.
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