Care2 member? Log in

Take Action For Earth Day!

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
 

Sign Petition!  see who signed this
log in

This petition has been closed.

see more petitions

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!
# 11,350:
5:09 am PDT, Apr 25, Jackie Mason, Florida
there's DIRT UNDER EVERY BU$H
# 11,349:
4:56 am PDT, Apr 25, Amanda Tabb, Virginia
I believe in the laws and regulations that were put into place to protect the environmental. The exploitation of a few ruins it for all -- lets stop this needless exploitation of our planet.

Takes away my freedoms to enjoy all the beautiful things the world has to offer.

# 11,348:
3:49 am PDT, Apr 25, Valerie Cameron, California
I care about the future of this great nation, the USA.

I live in Los Angeles. 'Nuff said.

# 11,347:
3:36 am PDT, Apr 25, Karen Hopkins, Georgia
I believe we need to keep protecting the environment and live with the environment, not ruin it!
# 11,346:
3:32 am PDT, Apr 25, Kenneth Herren, Arkansas
I am sick and tired of seeing our environmental laws being trashed by our current administration. This Nation belongs to WE THE PEOPLE, not we the corporations. All of the Execuative Branch of our Government must go to Save our Country.

Our underground water supply is being polluted at an alarming rate. We have had the purest water to be found anywhere for hundreds of years until recently. Corporate waste dumping has changed that. We are still waiting for rural water which will also be polluted if things continue like they are now.

# 11,345:
2:07 am PDT, Apr 25, Pattie McIntyre, Maine
I am greatly concerned about keeping our waters,lands, and air clean.. forever. Maybe this is the cure for so many illnesses!

This is my planet,too. What goes into our lakes, water, and air affects me, my family and my friends. It's my business what they do.

# 11,344:
1:36 am PDT, Apr 25, Name not displayed, Texas
We have to try to stop the backwards direction of George Dubbya

Makes my blood pressure real high, among other more important reasons too many to list.

# 11,343:
12:10 am PDT, Apr 25, Eric Yake, California
I have respect for my enviorment, unlike busines controlled by capatolistic pigs.

My now (closed) high school freinds are dying or are dead from this bad decision making. The EPA has no leg to stand on, and does nothing for the people only for big business. It is all government controll, by the people who buy the politicians. I hope this will wake some people up. First of all IMPEACH BUSH for a start !!!!

# 11,342:
11:34 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, California
We need to protect our natural resources for enjoyment today and for our children tomorrow. Let's continue to make the U.S. a more beautiful land by not only continuing with protections but being vigilant about other human practices which destroy our land.

Bad environmental policies threaten primarily my health but also my enjoyment of nature through allowing businesses to continue their pollution of air, water, and land.

# 11,341:
11:30 pm PDT, Apr 24, Laurel Kelly, California
If you don't know by now.....seek help

Trashing up my home (the earth).

# 11,340:
10:55 pm PDT, Apr 24, Shirley Ponceby, Ohio
It is necessary!
# 11,339:
10:55 pm PDT, Apr 24, T. Olson USN/Ret, Louisiana
I served my country to preserve its beauty. Stop the pollution that's putrifying our nation.

Seeing the rising number of cancer patients resulting from the chemical plant polluting the air in the region known as Louisiana's "Cancer Alley."

# 11,338:
10:16 pm PDT, Apr 24, Bonnie Cline, Pennsylvania
If we ruin our environment, where else will we go?
# 11,337:
10:12 pm PDT, Apr 24, Lia Friedman, New Jersey
I care deeply about the air I BREATH, and the world I live in. I care deeply about the animals and plants that have inherited this world as well, which most people seem to forget or they don't care at all. Now we have J Lo and Ben Affleck getting an island in Georgia with some of the oldest trees in the nation where they have a huge mansion and they plan to throw expensive (and polluting) parties... scaring away some of the most beautiful birds that have been able to make it to through the 21st century!

The answer is obvious: I live in the same planet Earth where -unfortunately- Bush, Norton and the other plague have been dropped, altogether with their corporativist and dishonest friends... what they do to this poor, beautiful and dying planet affects my health, my enjoyment, my plans, everything... unfortunately they will never pay for their sins

# 11,336:
10:00 pm PDT, Apr 24, Sharon Karson, Colorado
The environment is important. The physical and spiritual health of every person in this country depends on keeping the environment healthy.

I have asthma. Adding environmental pollution to the problem makes it very difficult for me to function.

# 11,335:
9:43 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, Washington
I believe it is important to let our 'elected' officials know how we feel.
# 11,334:
9:37 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, Australia
Humans are the main cause of environmental damage. It is up to us to give back to the environment what it has given us - life.
# 11,333:
9:17 pm PDT, Apr 24, Joanalyn Barcas, California
Save our environment
# 11,332:
9:08 pm PDT, Apr 24, LoWana Chandler, Indiana
Life is important and so is nature for us living now and for future generations.
# 11,331:
8:49 pm PDT, Apr 24, Tom Weldon, New Hampshire
corporate profits don't heal the ilnesses created by polluted environments

I breathe the same air that has proven to be unhealthy to many who suffer illnesses

# 11,330:
8:44 pm PDT, Apr 24, Elizabeth Hall, California
I care about Mother Earth. I am extremely concerned about overpopulation and the terrible destruction we are wreaking on all our precious ecosystems.

The greedy, unnecessary factory farms deny animals even the most minimal rights. It makes me heartsick to think of the continuous, systematic suffering of so many innocent creatures.

# 11,329:
8:36 pm PDT, Apr 24, Kerri Fleming, Montana
I feel that the science behind the environmental laws is valid and that undoing those laws is damaging to our environment.
# 11,328:
8:30 pm PDT, Apr 24, Linda Ferland, California
Our world needs to be protected from environmental pollutions of every type.

They cause deaths and pollutants to affect our health and keep us from growing older healthy--as well as destroying the natural homeland for our animals

# 11,327:
8:28 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, Georgia
I am upset that our government is now actively supporting polluters of our environment
# 11,326:
8:28 pm PDT, Apr 24, Sherry Wilson, California
I find this a high priority.
# 11,325:
8:18 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, Missouri
The powers that be need to get a grip on saving this planet for current and future life.
# 11,324:
8:14 pm PDT, Apr 24, Sidney Moseley, Oregon
Earth is the only home we all have. We must take care of her!
# 11,323:
8:10 pm PDT, Apr 24, Karen Beadle, Oregon
of the Golden Rule: to do unto others as one would have done onto himself. Bush, you choose the polluting results of business over over 6 billion persons' health? I'd have to say that your head should be shoved down a bucket of acid rain!!!

Everything in this world is connected because God made everything complete and filled it. If we don't balance the care of different areas in the world, we will all fall--whether we see it now or not.

# 11,322:
8:01 pm PDT, Apr 24, Fumiko Sakoda, Oklahoma
we need to protect our environment in order to protect ourselves and all other living creatures.
# 11,321:
8:01 pm PDT, Apr 24, Deane Rosen, Pennsylvania
The condition of the environment is more important than money, business, and everything else that helps destroy it. Without decent environmental conditions, none of these things will matter.
# 11,320:
7:58 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, New Jersey
I want a clean environment.
# 11,319:
7:58 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, New Jersey
I care
# 11,318:
7:50 pm PDT, Apr 24, Rosalind Spivack, New York
I want to protect our environment, and move forward instead of backward in guarding our environmental treasures.
# 11,317:
7:49 pm PDT, Apr 24, Antoinette Sellitto, Pennsylvania
The current administration would relax every environmental law on the books in order to placate big business.

The cancer rate in this country is increasing at an alarming rate. If the environment is damaged further, there will be even more cases of cancer and lung diseases.

# 11,316:
7:43 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, Oregon
To save the planet.

The future generations of all our families.

# 11,315:
7:30 pm PDT, Apr 24, Jose Sanchez, California
I feel that Earth Day should not only be for one day, but should be thought of as an everyday thing!!!

It affects terribly because I am a member of an Environmental Club in my school and I am terribly disturbed by these policies against the environment!!!!

# 11,314:
7:29 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, Singapore
-
# 11,313:
7:17 pm PDT, Apr 24, YM Tan, Singapore
We have to save our earth
# 11,312:
7:15 pm PDT, Apr 24, Nancy Sullivan, Kentucky
I am distressed that the US Government is now actively supporting corporate polluters.

My water, my air, my soil- all these are really OURS, and our government is allowing them to be despoiled for the financial benefit of a few.

# 11,311:
7:14 pm PDT, Apr 24, Richard Frohling, California
I believe that it is important to preserve the environment.

They affect all of us.

# 11,310:
7:11 pm PDT, Apr 24, Char Koblick, Indiana
we only have one earth and once it's gone it's gone. Most things if damaged can only repare its self under good cercomstances.

How doesn't it affect me?!!?!?!?

# 11,309:
7:10 pm PDT, Apr 24, Name not displayed, Arizona
We must protect our environment.
# 11,308:
7:02 pm PDT, Apr 24, Amy Mullins, Ohio
Past generations have caused enough damage, and we need to make it better for future generations, not make it worse.
# 11,307:
6:50 pm PDT, Apr 24, Adam Scartozzi, Indiana
People need to fight for the enviroment. The world is all we human and non-human animals have. To abuse the only world we have is to act unethical and I believe with all my heart that someday all those who work to destroy our world for the sake of profit will be brought to justice in one way or another. Foreshame Mr. Bush. I think its fair to say that I have seen one example in my life of a human being born without a conscience or logical thought process. JERK!

How do you answer that? How does it NOT affect me? I live on the earth don't I? How does pollution, and other practices that harm the enviroment not affect humans and non-human animals? We are dependent on its stability to exist.

# 11,306:
6:40 pm PDT, Apr 24, Janet Cassity, Ohio
I am sick of what the Bush administration is doing to our environmental protection laws.

We have ample evidence of global warming. Species are disappearing from the earth everyday. We have new deadly diseases that do not respond to treatment. There has to be protection in place NOW!

# 11,305:
6:27 pm PDT, Apr 24, Katherine Proctor, Washington
I am concerned with protecting and restoring what healthy habitat we have left for future generations.
# 11,304:
6:18 pm PDT, Apr 24, Roy Vanderleelie, California
I am tired of your blatant disregard of the will of the people to protect the environment. 2004 can't come soon enough

Bad air, unsafe drinking water, vanishing wilderness areas and species

# 11,303:
6:16 pm PDT, Apr 24, Sarah Downs, California
I think it's necessary.
# 11,302:
6:15 pm PDT, Apr 24, Jonathan Zeidman, Canada
I am sick and tired of all the excuses for rampant irresponsibility in the safeguard of the environment. Prudence, or more commonly, the lack thereof, is obviously apparent.

the environment can't be delineated by any border. the law of diffusion essentially guarantees everyone's environmental transgressions will ultimately affect everyone else.

# 11,301:
6:15 pm PDT, Apr 24, Carrie Hampton, Ohio
I believe it's important to save the resources of our planet!
Copyright © 2008 Care2.com, inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved