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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.

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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
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# 150:
7:10 pm PDT, Apr 16, Janet Bateson, Washington
I live in a beautiful part of our country - the Pacific Northwest. I know there are equally other beautiful areas of our wonderful country. I want my grandchildren to be able to take walks in a clean air environment and their children too. I want my country that I love to take action to protect the environment and do responsible environmental changes. I do not want exploitation of the environment such as drilling for oil in Alaska. That is a foolhardy and uncalled exploitation of that beautiful land. Please be sure the Bush Administration will not be allowed to do that. But furthermore, please work with us as concerned citizens to clean up our environment and put into policy actions that are responsible. We should be putting billions of dollars now at this moment into furthering research of alternatives to fossil fuels. We know the technology is there. Don't let Bush and others wait 5-6 years and make promises that we will get to it sometime. Now is the important time. We need to reduce our dependency on oil for very obvious reasons.

Bad environmental policies affect me because I have asthma. I need clean air to breathe better. I have had breast cancer. I don't have a bit of family history for breast cancer. I know dozens of women who had it too and did not have family history. The doctors say it is most likely due to environmental causes, but they don't know the specific cause. We need good and responsible environmental policies to protect our citizens.

# 149:
7:05 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
We are destroying our country and future with our careless actions. A minority of people with money our making decisions that undermine our health and line their pockets.

Allergies-smog-awful looking horizon-lakes we can't eat fish out of-water we can't swim in or drink.....

# 148:
6:59 pm PDT, Apr 16, Matt Werner, Maine
I believe in the natural gifts that we have to appreciate and I believe that we have an obligation to care for them.

Bad environmental policies surely affect us all. Not only us, but all living things. We all enjoy the end result of some things that have an adverse effect on our environment. Just as we enjoy the lifestyle we have become accustomed to, we should seek to minimize the negative results that come of it.

# 147:
6:56 pm PDT, Apr 16, Becky Arneth, Wisconsin
This is too important not to get involved.

Health, recreation, economy, my grandchildren.

# 146:
6:49 pm PDT, Apr 16, Michele Villeneuve, Minnesota
I feel if you value something you need to take action to preserve it.
# 145:
6:47 pm PDT, Apr 16, Kara Goheen, Canada
i think without a healthy world we can not survive
# 144:
6:43 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
I want to be a part of the cure, and an example of how to treat our planet.

By making my "home" unlivable, intolerable and by taking away my personal choices in wanting to live in a clean and healthy planet.

# 143:
6:42 pm PDT, Apr 16, Ferdinand Kutheis, Missouri
The Earth belongs to all of us; not just Americans, the Administration and Big Business. We do not want it sold out from under our feet.

The water must be treated with chemicals which in themselves can be harmful; the air?? soon we will be wearing gas masks; our food?? what can we trust not to be contaminated, genetically changed, treated with antibiotics? and the list goes on...

# 142:
6:38 pm PDT, Apr 16, Susan Stevenson, Nevada
I care. The two Bush administrations have clearly proven they don't! Without the enforcement of environmental laws, history has proven numerous times that man will destroy the environment. We are definitely running out of space on the planet. Soyalent Green anyone?

Not just me, but my community. Without community there is nothing. Of course poisoning communities is alot easier than bombing them isn't it

# 141:
6:35 pm PDT, Apr 16, Anna Giampaoli, Alaska
I want a healthy enviroment for my children. I want them to know what trees are, to see what an amazing place earth is and we are destroying it.
# 140:
6:35 pm PDT, Apr 16, Lynda Frasier, Canada
I care about the environment and would like my children to at least breath clean air.
# 139:
6:33 pm PDT, Apr 16, Christina Cunningham, New York
I find it hard to believe that our elected leaders and representatives are acting so devastatingly irresponsible - in my name! Selfishness, arrogance, stupidity, obsolesence - please stop.

They affect everyone, we are one.

# 138:
6:28 pm PDT, Apr 16, Trish Woodard, Oklahoma
Because the present Adminstration is bound and determinded to kill the environment if it can make the rich richer. They do not care about there fellow man, planet or animals..Money matters most.

My health, the safety and well being of our child and their children and all the lakes, forrest and animals. Bad environment hurts everyone but the rich. They do not care about tomorrow.

# 137:
6:27 pm PDT, Apr 16, R Kimball, New Mexico
i care

environmentally injured!!! cant breathe that crap

# 136:
6:27 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, North Carolina
Destruction of the environment effects everyone today, tomorrow and in the future (if there is one).

It is killing us.

# 135:
6:25 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
I feel that it is important to stop Bush and his appointees from further destruction to our environment. They work at setting us backwards instead of helping the environment improve. The feeling is that they are helping out the Bush cronies for the sake of the $$ and the hell with our lives and future!!

They rob me of clean air/water and future generations also. Our forrests and animals are also harmed. The constant tearing down of all ready made laws and policies is destructive to all. This country worked hard to bring about good changes but the Bush admin. works hard at destroying all the good steps that have been made for mankind. Good people are transferred into odd jobs if they voice their honest thoughts against the Bush team memeber!!

# 134:
6:22 pm PDT, Apr 16, Diane Eagle, California
Not destroying our MOTHER!

It effects everything with all the pollutants

# 133:
6:22 pm PDT, Apr 16, Jeannette Dale, Florida
Bush is paying back his big corporate supporters with freedom from responsibility. The legislators who give these freedoms to the big bucks are not acting in the interest of their constituents. I sincerely hope voters keep these facts in mind in the next election.

Destruction of the environment affects everyone, everywhere.

# 132:
6:16 pm PDT, Apr 16, Anja E. Goerke, Colorado
I care.

It would be faster to name the ways they don't. Big corporations and built-up militaries won't mean so much in ten years when global warming is out of control and deforestation is beyond repair. That's the future with which I'll have to live and if it's up to me, I don't want my children to see anything of the sort.

# 131:
6:13 pm PDT, Apr 16, Genie Folsom, Washington
I would like the US to be a leader in something positive like cleaning up our waters, air and land. I feel the Bush administration is more interested in being a leader in profit and big business rather than health of humans animals and all other life. I think we can do more to be stewards of this earth and loosening corporate laws that were made to protect our environment is a horrible idea.

Bad policies don't just affect ME they affect every living thing the planet over. We all live down stream and we all need clean air and water. Let's be #1 in our environmental policies and have that as the thing we are looked up to for.

# 130:
6:10 pm PDT, Apr 16, Will Isaacson, West Virginia
I may be only one individual.But without one there would be none.I care do you.

Easy.Look in any hospital.Politicians pockets.

# 129:
6:05 pm PDT, Apr 16, Jane Jacobs, Washington
I feel that Bush has done nothing to help the environment. His father said there was no such thing as acid rain. He is certainly supporting the big businessman.

We all live on the earth and we are all part of it.

# 128:
6:03 pm PDT, Apr 16, KC Curry, Texas
If our government does not wake up & start protecting this planet that God put into our care, there will not be anything left to make a profit. Of course that is not their problem, just as long as they can make every dollar possible today & damn tomorrow.

Mentally, emotionally, physically & spiritualy. It leaves me with no hope.

# 127:
6:02 pm PDT, Apr 16, James Peterson, Virginia
I want earth day to be around for a long time
# 126:
5:54 pm PDT, Apr 16, Karen Burroughs, Florida
I am tired of special interest groups with money to lobby getting their way regardless of devastation to the environment.

I drive near my home and see how beautiful forests are cleared for subdivisions without regard for wildlife. I feel sad for their loss which is my loss.

# 125:
5:51 pm PDT, Apr 16, Shawn Nason, New York
Corporat Plutocracy Sucks!

Cancer to clearcutting! It's all Disgusting!

# 124:
5:50 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, New York
This is an important cause to back up.

They ruin the air that I breath and they affect my whole world from waking up and brushing my teeth with water to going to sleep in a clean location.

# 123:
5:50 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, New York
The enviorment is a very special place that must be preserved
# 122:
5:43 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
Bush is the worst thing to happen to the environment since acid rain.
# 121:
5:41 pm PDT, Apr 16, Michael Pierce, Connecticut
I am hoping that something, somehow, will get through to the Administration...at least to let them (him?) know that someone is paying attention.

In every way, ranging from the basic, literal health effects, to the "spiritual"level, as I see that greed and entitlement can trump truth and kindness and be promoted as wisdom.

# 120:
5:38 pm PDT, Apr 16, Celeste Baker, North Carolina
I would like to have a safe enviroment

Health

# 119:
5:34 pm PDT, Apr 16, Janice Michaels, Missouri
I would like to finally put this matter to rest once and for all that Environmental Laws have been fought for and put in place for the benefit of all Americans.They were never meant to be bartered off for political gain.

One thing is that 'bad policies' allow pollutants from factories to escape into the air and the lakes and rivers.My health, and that of others could be seriously affected by this, plus , it affects me, and others , when tax dollars are spent to clean up someone else's mess instead of them being rightfully used to fund a worthy cause or program.

# 118:
5:31 pm PDT, Apr 16, Merrilee Holmes Scatena, Hawaii
No one has the right to poison the gift of our home, that God gave us! What an insult to God, the gift itself, and every living thing we share it with.
# 117:
5:30 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Texas
This is the only known inhabited planet. We do not have anywhere else to go.

We are losing our beautiful environments: it is so hard to find someplace green and quiet to go.

# 116:
5:30 pm PDT, Apr 16, Judith Asphar, New York
On behalf of the voiceless ones I pray we will not continue to destroy the life support system on which their lives depend.

Strange tho' it may seem I too would rather not be poisoned by toxic air, soil, water, and incestous corporate/political embeddedness

# 115:
5:28 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Maryland
Our environment is more important to protect than lining the pockets of big business. Polluting or destroying our world is not healthy for anyone, especially for our future generations.

Destroying, abusing and polluting the environment affects my family's and my health and well-being and that of my future family.

# 114:
5:28 pm PDT, Apr 16, Kristie Maloney, California
I think this administration is setting frightening precedents in our governmental treatment of the environment. Things need to change before their unreversable.

Because I would like to see what's left of nature survive for future generations, and these dangerous policies prevent that from happening.

# 113:
5:28 pm PDT, Apr 16, Helen L. Crowe, New Hampshire
you and your administration are heading us in the wrong direction. Besides killing Iraqis, you are killing the planet.

Here in Claremont we suffer from the dioxins coming from the incinerator, and now you are making the air worse.

# 112:
5:26 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Virginia
It's past time to show Mother Earth the respect she should have. Corporations have no interest in her welfare, only in their own greed. All creation is connected and what we destroy affects all of us and if not stopped will destroy life itself!

I am presently living in a town that is completely dependent on industry. One has only to smell the air or look in the rivers to see the pollution that is allowed. I breathe it, I eat it and I could be drinking it if I didn't use bottled water. I suffer from dysfunctions of the immune system that were not present until I began living here.

# 111:
5:26 pm PDT, Apr 16, Stacy Campbell, Canada
We all need to take responsibility for this beautiful planet we live on and to protect it for future generations.

We are all affected - humans, plants, animals. We share this planet and bad environmental policies affect our health and wellbeing.

# 110:
5:21 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
I want our earth to survive

We are on a dangerous path which will eventually destroy all life on earth.

# 109:
5:21 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, California
I have MCS/Chemical Injury

The air I breath brings pollution in to my body and leaves me weak and sick.

# 108:
5:17 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Washington
I believe that the right and moral action for our leadership is to respect the will of the people and the greatest GOOD, not pander to economic GREED. Let's do all we can to ensure the Bush name is remembered for it's contributions to the environment and it's beauty.

It's all one planet, and now there is no clean water anywhere on it. The air is getting dirtier too. Time for us as humans to stop spreading our sewage and start cleaning up our acts. It is corporate eco-terrorism if the end result makes others, even animals, worse off.

# 107:
5:12 pm PDT, Apr 16, Rick Karcich, Colorado
I live on the earth...
# 106:
5:10 pm PDT, Apr 16, Alexandra Greacen, Florida
The earth is in a terrible state, and I want you to help it instead of making it worse which is a crime against humanity.
# 105:
5:09 pm PDT, Apr 16, Sue Sjolin, Texas
I care about the earth and the future.

Bad environmental policies destroy what we have left. We must fight to save and rebuild for the sake of our children.

# 104:
5:08 pm PDT, Apr 16, ALYSSA CHRISTNER, Florida
I WANT A CLEAN & SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR MY CHILDREN & FUTURE GENERATIONS TO GROW UP & LIVE IN.

THEY AFFECT EVERYONES HEALTH.

# 103:
5:07 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Missouri
Someone needs to take a stand to protect our environment. We CANNOT ignore this, it is too important to mankind!!
# 102:
4:57 pm PDT, Apr 16, Beth Doty, New York
I care.

It destroys all that this world may offer all of our children.

# 101:
4:55 pm PDT, Apr 16, Diane Walter-Duim, California
I believe in MOTHER EARTH and all creatures!!!

Clasping palms to make a deal. No thought as to the OUTCOME for TODAY or TOMORROW.

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