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Target: President George W. Bush
Sponsored by: Save Our Environment
For Earth Day, tell the Bush Administration to stop assisting big business in trampling our environmental laws. Sign the FREE petition below and we'll automatically send a letter to President Bush and your members of Congress!

Behind closed doors and away from public view, the Bush Administration is allowing big corporations to weaken our nation's environmental laws, so they can put more pollution in our air, put more poison in our water, cut down our national forests, damage our public lands, and make taxpayers, rather than polluters, foot the bill for cleaning up toxic wastes.

SIGN NOW, and tell the BUSH administration to save our environment!




deadline: 4-30-2004
goal: 25,000
 

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Dear President Bush,

During the past year your administration has made numerous decisions to dramatically weaken important environmental safeguards, decisions that will have devastating consequences for our communities, our country and our planet.

I am writing to ask you to stop this alarming trend, and begin supporting stronger, not weaker, environmental protections. I am especially concerned about your administration's destructive pollution policies. At the behest of corporate polluters, your agencies are moving to weaken fundamental clean air programs, loosening control of power plant pollution that causes acid rain, asthma, and numerous serious respiratory problems. Your administration is also shifting the burden of toxic waste clean up from polluters to taxpayers, and forcing nuclear waste upon states that want nothing to do with it.

I am alarmed that under your policies endangered species are more threatened than ever, and millions of acres of pristine forests are about to be exposed to destruction. All this even though the vast majority of Americans want our natural heritage protected. And now, clean water is threatened by raw sewage, while crucial safeguards have been bottled up for more than a year.

Mining and drilling on public land is already a huge give-away to special interests, and I understand that it is about to get bigger. And on top of all this, your administration is aggressively promoting an energy policy that puts corporate interests ahead of national security and environmental protection.

I urge you to respect the overwhelming consensus for environmental protection in this country and stop using government agencies to let big corporations rewrite our environmental laws. Please take the necessary steps to protect the environment and the health of all Americans.

CC: U.S. Senators & Members of Congress
We signed the “Take Action For Earth Day!” petition!
# 50:
2:55 pm PDT, Apr 16, Diane Hagen, New Jersey
we must protect our non-renewable resources.

I'm concerned for the air and water quality my grandchildren will have.

# 49:
2:52 pm PDT, Apr 16, L. Young, New York
i care about having the earth as a home left for us to live on.
# 48:
2:48 pm PDT, Apr 16, Anita Hutchens, North Carolina
I believe in protection of our Mother Earth. This is the only one we have. The Bush Administration policies on environmental issues are to repeal laws already made to affect a safer environment. Big buisness gets the nod here, as they contributed so much money to your campaign in 2000.You are so transparent!

Cancer in my family- Sister, Father, I want my son to have clean air to breathe, safe water to drink, and safe food to eat.

# 47:
2:47 pm PDT, Apr 16, White-Bear Bear, Washington
I care about our Mother Earth.

I am on this earth

# 46:
2:47 pm PDT, Apr 16, Ian Swanson, Utah
We need to think about these things all year not just one day a year

Our health is directly tied to the health of our environment

# 45:
2:44 pm PDT, Apr 16, Mike & Joy Cook, Georgia
Bad environmental policy affects everything: animals (including humans), plants, the air we breathe, the water we drink, etc.etc.
# 44:
2:40 pm PDT, Apr 16, Suzanne Maese, New Mexico
I want future generations to have a clea n earth to live in, to enjoy and take care of Mother Earth, but, if nothing is done now then forget the future.
# 43:
2:35 pm PDT, Apr 16, Melinda Gonzalez, Texas
It is not only about loving nature, it is about loving our fellow human brothers and sisters. In the long run our laziness and struggle for extreme "efficency" will leave many future generations cleaning our mess. I want everyone to enjoy the same benefits we do, and I think mother nature deserves the best as well.

It affects everyone, and I am a somebody. I do not want to die from cancer caused by pollutants. I love life and want to live it to the fullest!

# 42:
2:34 pm PDT, Apr 16, Tammy Bouchelle, Georgia
It is essential to use the EPA to PROTECT our remaining natural resources, not accelerate thier destruction.
# 41:
2:32 pm PDT, Apr 16, Terri Kriegsfeld, New York
Our country has some of the most beautiful and rare samples of nature's glory in the world. When it's gone there's no getting it back. Mr. Bush claims to "fear God". He can fear God all he wants but he better start listening to and honoring the Great Mother.
# 40:
2:23 pm PDT, Apr 16, Jane Drews, Illinois
Thus far our current administration's environmental policies leave a great deal to be desired. We are going backwards instead of pressing ahead to save what's left of the precious natural world. Catering to corporate America at the expense of nature must stop.

It threatens the health and well being of all living creatures now and for generations to come.

# 39:
2:21 pm PDT, Apr 16, Brian Coffey, New York
Nothing is more important, in the long term, than the health of the environment. Better to take action now than to be forced to take drastic measures in the future.

They rob us of health; they destroy the wilderness; they even affect us financially.

# 38:
2:21 pm PDT, Apr 16, Nancy E Ging, Washington
When the environment is damaged, health is damaged, both now and for our children.

Our children are at much higher risk of cancer, asthma, and other pollution related illnesses. Cancer is already at near epidemic proportions.

# 37:
2:15 pm PDT, Apr 16, Kelly Crouch, Washington
The environment is very important to all. So much as already been damaged by oil spills, etc. Please save our environment.
# 36:
1:40 pm PDT, Apr 16, Dario Ravera, Argentina
I'm a person who want a clean planet to live healthy with Humankind!

Destroying our unique home in the universe: Earth! Please, protect it from destruction and pollution!

# 35:
1:24 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, California
It's the right thing to do
# 34:
12:35 pm PDT, Apr 16, Jenna Grauer-Gray, Massachusetts
We need to keep the natural habitats we have left.
# 33:
12:33 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, New York
I want to preserve the earth for future generations.

There are fewer wild places and wild animals to view and enjoy.

# 32:
11:52 am PDT, Apr 16, Randy Lewis, Utah
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# 31:
11:40 am PDT, Apr 16, Gene Peters, Texas
Bush's self-serving policies must cease. It's time to protect our future, not the deep pockets of his political contributors.

In every aspect of my life.

# 30:
11:16 am PDT, Apr 16, Laura Rodo, Maryland
Ilove my planet!!!!!!!!please, save our enviroment, don't destroy it.
# 29:
10:36 am PDT, Apr 16, James Jindracek, Rhode Island
I care about our national forests,wild life,rivers & oceans. I like to breathe clean air, drink clean water, eat food grown in clean soil. I want all these things for my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

They help me decide where my vote will go on election day.

# 28:
10:33 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Illinois
The government should not be so concerned about assisting big business, that the earth and the people the government represents are further harmed.
# 27:
10:24 am PDT, Apr 16, Cory Chisham, Canada
All Americans deserve clean air,water & land to farm on!!!!
# 26:
9:56 am PDT, Apr 16, Paul Uecker, Minnesota
The environment is something we all live with. No amount of money can buy it back if we destroy it.
# 25:
9:34 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
It is necessary for Bush to finally listen to his people.

My mother's had cancer 8 times, you do the math

# 24:
9:09 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
I love the peace and tranquility of nature and the more we destroy the less places for others to go and get away from the evil inhabitants called "humans"......
# 23:
8:18 am PDT, Apr 16, MaryJoan D'Amore, New York
we need to take care of our earth
# 22:
7:45 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Canada
I think it is a ver important thing, to let the people in charge know that we don't agree with there politics, they need to start protecting our world.
# 21:
7:11 am PDT, Apr 16, Teresa Nemeth, California
As a dedicated environmental volunteer, I have seen what the President Bush and his Administration policies undermining our remaining ecosystems for profit.

It has given a number corporations to do what they like, by bypassing air, water and environmental regulations. It affects the health of people and the planet. Once again this is for "profit" at our expense.

# 20:
6:28 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Ohio
Because clean enviroment is very importent, and President Bush dosn't seem to care.
# 19:
6:00 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed
# 18:
5:58 am PDT, Apr 16, Bruce Combs, Netherlands
My wife and I want our grandchildren to have the opportunities to enjoy nature and its wildlife with a healthy and comfortable life of their own.

My wife, brother, and I suffer from emphasyma and asthma. Who knows how much polution also contributes to cancer and every other disease!

# 17:
5:56 am PDT, Apr 16, M. Martinez, Texas
i sincerely believe that the time is NOW to reverse the appalling damage we have done to our beautiful Mother Earth in just a relatively short time of the world's existence.

with every assault on my senses and my sensibilities. we must all accept responsibility in the caretaking of the Creator's gifts.

# 16:
5:50 am PDT, Apr 16, Vicky Mccaughey, United Kingdom
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# 15:
12:46 am PDT, Apr 16, Ximena Sánchez, Chile
I love my planet, I love the environment, I love the wildlife!

Extinction is forever!

# 14:
12:29 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Singapore
I believe the future of the general public should come first, not that of the bosses of uncaring companies.

What future are my chldren going to have? Must they suffer becoz our generation couldn;t help ?!

# 13:
10:31 pm PDT, Apr 15, Monica Keehn, Oregon
I am sick of the selfishness of the world.

I am worried about my son's future. Why ruin our earth when there are PROVEN ways to stop this! (organic farming, sustainable businesses, ect.)

# 12:
10:13 pm PDT, Apr 15, Sally Simpson, Texas
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. This makes you a collaborator and full time partner with anybody or business which seeks to turn a blind eye to the destructive and devastating conditions left behind by the greedy wants and desires of the most powerful people in the world. Silence does indeed equal death.

It is simply distressing to know what our bodies inhale, and also how wildlife and inhabitants of the oceans and all the waters of the world have suffered because of the insensitive greed of human beings.

# 11:
9:44 pm PDT, Apr 15, Name not displayed, Iowa
Every voice counts and I choose to use mine!If we do not have a healthy enviroment,we do not have a healthy existance!

Bad enviromental policies effect every living being on the planet,not just a very few of us!

# 10:
8:58 pm PDT, Apr 15, Kristin Wilson, Wisconsin
I live on this earth too! Not just them!

They determine our children's health and my health. We are the one's with the say, not them!

# 9:
8:21 pm PDT, Apr 15, Name not displayed, Ohio
I want to save our environment, clean water for all now.
# 8:
7:46 pm PDT, Apr 15, Marian Zimmerman, Maine
The remake of our environmental protections is very evident, even as the administration uses the cloak of terrorism and war in Iraq to distract the public. We will not be decieved.

Our quality of life is diminished by the corporate welfare give-away conducted by the present administration.

# 7:
7:44 pm PDT, Apr 15, Sloane Karras, Canada
Even though Mr. Bush does not run my country, animals, plants and weather patterns do not know borders. What Mr. Bush decides to do afects all lviing beings who call Earth home.

Unfortuntely, Canada tends to follow the lead of our southern parts. Even in bad decisions.

# 6:
7:33 pm PDT, Apr 15, Frederick Smith Jr, Montana
I completely disagree with what the Bush Administration is doing. Environmental groups better start spending a little more time foucsed up grassroots organizing to end this constant threat of backlash by anti-environmental interests.
# 5:
7:27 pm PDT, Apr 15, Joann Young, Iowa
This is the only home we have. We must preserve it for our descendents and the flora and fauna who were here before us.
# 4:
5:59 pm PDT, Apr 15, John Kesich, Pennsylvania
because if enough people speak out bush will not be able to ignore us
# 3:
4:34 pm PDT, Apr 15, Josh Dasher, California
The Environment is very important to me. I feel that President Bush is doing a great disservice to all Americans and the future of this country to play into the hands of big industries and roll back 30 years worth of environmental protections! We need a leader that can push industry to reach for the envelope of technological change and sustainable business... not go back to the dark industrial ages! If Bush is against the environment-- then I am against Bush!

We are all affected by bad environmental policies. THe government has a responsibility to reign in business -- there is more to life than the bottom line of profit. And the government must use its resources to help guide the nation in the right direction!

# 2:
3:54 pm PDT, Apr 15, Michelle Oja, Nebraska
I will always support protecting the environment, and I will protect those who also support this view.
# 1:
3:49 pm PDT, Apr 15, Name not displayed, New Jersey
We cannot weaken or turn aside from protecting our planet (and therefore ourselves). We have too long neglected the environment and our planet. Soon it will be too late. What are we leaving for our children?
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