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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
 

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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!
# 11,377:
8:34 am PDT, Apr 25, Jessie Rock, Minnesota
Little Baby Bush and friends, need to get a grip! This place (Earth) is a mess and they are supposed to be our leaders! (even though they didn't win the election, but stole it!) They all need their butts spanked like naughty little children!

Because I am alive and I am sustained by clean air, water, and food - not money and oil.

# 11,376:
8:28 am PDT, Apr 25, Paul Cruickshank, United Kingdom
I care about the environment.
# 11,375:
8:23 am PDT, Apr 25, Scott Aronin, New York
Every day we do not look longer term and more compassionately towards our future, is a day that life-- from microorganisms to humans-- is harmed and cut short.

Many human health problems are already connected to our environment and other species are disappearing at the fastest rate since the dinosaurs died. So, our policies affect me phhsically and emotionally.

# 11,374:
8:09 am PDT, Apr 25, Elisha Minsal, Florida
I care about my enviorment.
# 11,373:
8:03 am PDT, Apr 25, Sue Powell, United Kingdom
This Earth is not ours ; we are custodians of it - in fact , it is on loan to us . If something is on loan to me then i do not choose to destoy it .

I have a beautiful little girl and i want her to learn from others to appreciate this Earth and its precious natural commodities .. how can she ? It is so sad when people are driven by greed and cannot see what the outcome will be . The future is going to be so bleek for our chidren and their children yet no one can see this . How can they learn from bad teachers with bad enviromental policies ?

# 11,372:
7:48 am PDT, Apr 25, Lois Hoffer, France
I believe that clean air and water is the most important thing there is, far more important than money or profit or economic advantage. Without a sound environment, we all die, it's that simple. What good will money be then?

Bad environmental policy affects me DIRECTLY! In my body, in my lungs, in my food, and in my HEALTH.

# 11,371:
7:26 am PDT, Apr 25, Tara Ellerbee, Texas
AS a citizen living on the Earth, we deserve the right to protect our planet. Elementally we understand little. I am a person who believes in century scientist can prodide true answers to the quandries of our miising elements and enviromental problems..

Common foundment of mentally challenging problems are diseasable in effect in response from our waste system..

# 11,370:
7:15 am PDT, Apr 25, Lisa Sood, United Kingdom
The Earth needs to be protected and the policies which the present government are creating are harmful and not concerned with the future.
# 11,369:
7:07 am PDT, Apr 25, Vivian Acosta, Puerto Rico
WE NEED TO PROTECT WHAT WE STILL HAVE FOR OUR CHILDREN AND FOR OURSELVES

THEY ATTEMPT AGAINST MY FUTURE AND MY CHILDREN'S FUTURE

# 11,368:
7:06 am PDT, Apr 25, Marian Zimmerman, Maine
The current administration's environmental policies are thinly veiled support for corporate welfare

My natural heritage is being dismantled and given to "big money insiders" while I foot the bill and the ill health consequences

# 11,367:
7:06 am PDT, Apr 25, Frederico Bruno Ferreira, Portugal
The here and now politics from this administration must be stopped. It is necessary to prevent more environment atacks.
# 11,366:
7:00 am PDT, Apr 25, Linda Chandler, Illinois
I am concerned for the environment and I think that the current administration is developing policies that are self-serving and short-sighted.
# 11,365:
6:56 am PDT, Apr 25, Name not displayed, New Jersey
our earth is being abused and destroyed. We must ALL protect it!!

Nothing is more important than clean air and water for the health of my family.Money should not direct policy.

# 11,364:
6:51 am PDT, Apr 25, Cathy Kropp, Minnesota
We need to protect our Earth--and messages such as these really do make a difference.

They effect the air I breathe, the water I drink and the food I eat. They effect everyone and everything-our bad decisions cause problems for the Earth and all her inhabitants--we need to clean up our act (literally)

# 11,363:
6:49 am PDT, Apr 25, Name not displayed, Finland
I am concerned about the environment.
# 11,362:
6:45 am PDT, Apr 25, Name not displayed, North Carolina
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# 11,361:
6:22 am PDT, Apr 25, Rasta Salome, California
We have elected a "leader" that doesn't represent the people he has been elected to lead. We helped pass these bills in order to improve the success of wildlife and the ecosystem. It took years for these to pass and now with the flick of one's wrist, years of triumph, gone!

They infringe on our rights to the pursuit of happiness. These policies won't go away. Eventually these issue and consequences will end up in our own backyards and it will be too late to rectify our actions. We Must start today improving our methods of prioritizing. Media's coverage of death & destruction are limited to crimes against "man" but crimes against the animals and environment should be our main concern. If Nature is unbalanced, then so are we. Cause & Effect are real concepts in Nature, we better begin to realize this before our children lose the chance for a long, happy, healthy life. Ras Tafari!

# 11,360:
6:21 am PDT, Apr 25, Ashleigh*Erin S, Michigan
Because....
# 11,359:
6:10 am PDT, Apr 25, Sabrina Ravelo, New York
I believe that nature is wonderful and we should all share it together as one.
# 11,358:
6:03 am PDT, Apr 25, Mike Leppla, Ohio
To support the desire for a clean Earth

It affects all of us. We all breath the same air, drink the same water, etc.

# 11,357:
6:00 am PDT, Apr 25, Joan Leppla, Ohio
We must work to keep our environment clean. Our health and lives depend upon it!

Everything is connected. Policies affect everyone!

# 11,356:
5:55 am PDT, Apr 25, Lynn Armstrong, Canada
it's about time for change!
# 11,355:
5:54 am PDT, Apr 25, Jennifer Avondet, Ohio
Where are we without our environmental resources?
# 11,354:
5:42 am PDT, Apr 25, Sandra Herman, New York
I care about the future of earth.
# 11,353:
5:24 am PDT, Apr 25, Jelena Gacesa, Croatia
I strongly believe that our environment needs to be protected in every possible way!
# 11,352:
5:09 am PDT, Apr 25, Rytz Yvan, Switzerland
Nature is life!
# 11,351:
5:09 am PDT, Apr 25, Barbara Feild, Virginia
President Bush is extremely narrow minded and obvioulsy cannot see very far into the future.
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