Politics as unusual
Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, HarperCollins, 2004.
Bush Versus the Environment, Robert S. Devine, Anchor Books, 2004.
Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress by Carl Pope and Paul Rauber, Sierra Club Books, 2004. Also see the Strategic Ignorance site for updates.
Collections of links:
The Environment and Public Lands from Failure is Impossible
The environment and science from The Crises Papers
Pombo hearings start on environmental law by Mike Taugher
Chris Mooney reports that Senator James Inhofe, one of the most extreme of the extreme, will be receiving a science award.
Bush-League Lysenkoism: The White House bends science to its will from Scientific American
John Marburger has issued a resopnce to the Union of Concerned Scientists report, Chris Mooney offers his response.
The Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Wildlife Federation have criticised Marburger's response.
More on the "sound science" front:
Beware 'Sound Science.' It's Doublespeak for Trouble by Chris Mooney in the Washington Post
Bush Ejects Two From Bioethics Council: Changes Renew Criticism That the President Puts Politics Ahead of Science by Rick Weiss notes that the president continues to stack advisory panels
Chris Mooney has more about these stories on his blog.
Meanwhile Steven Milloy has claimed that the Union of Concerned Scientists statement is just an election year attack, and that "If the 12 Nobel laureate signatories truly want to fight the politicization of science, they might start by withdrawing their signatures from the UCS report." Actually it was 20 Nobel laureates, which should give you some idea of the quality of Milloy's work.
Chris Mooney reports that over 100 bioethicists have spoken out about President Bush's ejection of two members from a bioethics committee
Chris Mooney and Tim Lambert defend Mooney's article on sound science, and Lambert strongly criticizes global warming "skeptic" Richard Lindzen.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted a question and answer period with John H. Marburger III, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Chris Mooney reports that Scienceinpolicy has a letter in the latest issue of Nature.
The Hill and Chris Mooney report that Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren was prevented from distributing a San JosMercury News editorial to her colleagues.
Mooney writes about his attempt to track down the origins of "sound science". Also see the interesting comments at The Panda's Thumb.
Chris Mooney reports on Politicized Advisory Committees
Tim Lambert takes on one of Steven Milloy's favorite bits of statistical nonsense.
Congressman Henry Waxman has also criticised Marburge.
Sucker Punch, on the Endangered Species Act
Earth Last on Senator James Inhofe
Mercury Uprising: Bush's mercury proposal draws heat from both sides of the aisle by Amanda Griscom
GOP Epiphany by Amanda Griscom
Salmon jeopardized by method used in run count, scientists say
Judges Are Urged to Quit Board Positions Group: Industry-Funded Foundation Has Interest in Cases Over Which Jurists Presided by Carol D. Leonnig
Senator Tom Daschle's Statement On the Bush Administration's Neglect of Science and Research
Park Service tried to conceal service cuts, files show: Officials urged to call them 'adjustments' by Zachary Coile UPDATE Under public pressure, the Park Service has changed its plans.
Bush's Jeckyll and Hyde Record by Lisa Heinzerling
Highway Robbery: The RS 2477 Threat
The New Science Wars: Is George W. Bush's the most anti-science administration in modern times? by Chris Mooney
Robert Todd Carroll reports on the government's promoting of Intelligent Design creationism
She Bothered Me With Science: The Bush administration's scientific distortions threaten the environment by Amanda Griscom
Euros concerned for US scienceScientists worried that politics is damaging science in the US-and the world By Ned Stafford
In RS 2477 reform is needed to protect private property Mark Boslough writes about how an outdated law is used to turn areas into off-road vehicle areas
Chris Mooney reports on a letter signed by numerous scientists lambasting the Bush administration's abuse of science, organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
In "The Politics of Vengeance" (Newsweek, April 28, 2003, page 70) George Will praises Senator James Inhofe for taking out his frustrations on the environment. Will uses Gregg Easterbrook's discredited A Moment on the Earth as a reference and quotes Inhofe as saying that there is "no science" on global warming. Inhofe, BTW, is the chairman of the Environmental and Public Works Committee. Be very afraid.
"Why Ecocide Is 'Good News' for the GOP" By Glenn Scherer, E Magazine, May 5, 2003
The Junk Science of George W. Bush by Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Court and Spark: Bush nominates eco-hostile lobbyist to federal appeals court by Amanda Griscom
In Future Scientists of America, Unite! Chris Mooney describes the blandly titled Science in Policy. The group looks at a number of issues including climate change, tozxins, endangered species and forests.
In Environmental Botox Frank O'Donnell claims that the Bush administration's recent interest in the environment is just pre-election PR.
In Conservative Lysenkoism Redux Chris Mooney looks at the The House Committee on Resources' "sound science" hearing.
In Sins Of Omission Frank O'Donnel notes that the environment was absent from thr State of the Union speech
Endangered Species Act Targeted by Erica Werner
The Green Elephant in the Room : Whitman highlights Republican rift on environment by Amanda Griscom
Jumping Ship at the EPA: Environmental enforcers get out while the getting's good (and everything else is bad) by Amanda Griscom
Bush Plans On Global Warming Alter Little Voluntary Programs Attract Few Firms By Guy Gugliotta and Eric Pianin Washington Post Thursday, January 1, 2004; Page A01
Wetland's End: Bush administration floats new plan that would gut wetland protections by Amanda Griscom
Bush takes quiet aim at 'green' laws by Brad Knickerbocker
This Is Your Brain on Public Relations by Kenny Ausubel looks at a briefing book assembled by Frank Luntz that puts a spin on Bush's environmental rollbacks. The Environmental Working Group also posted a look at the book, as well as the entire section on the environment
Debunking Environmental Myths: Unveiling how Voters really feel about Clean Air and Water from the League of Conservation Voters
Gadfly in the Ointment: Enviros berate Bush apologist for inaccurate L.A. Times op-ed by Amanda Griscom
Electoral Collage from Grist Magazine
Science Friction: The growing--and dangerous--divide between scientists and the GOP.By Nicholas Thompson
Bush covers up climate research
Religious Wrong: A Higher Power Informs the Republican Assault on the Environment By Glenn Scherer
Using Patriotism To Sell Extremism
2 EPA officials take jobs with firms benefiting from rule change
How Bush and Co. Obscure the Science By Jeremy Symons
Pombo lashes out on environment
Bush team takes global warming off the agenda by Duncan Campbell
Unwise Use: Gale Norton's New Environmentalism by David Helvarg
When the G.O.P. Was Green By WILLIAM CRONON
The Bush Record from the Natural Resources Defense Council
White House Watch from EarthJustice
REP America - Republicans for Environmental protection
How Bush gets his way on the environment by Terry McCarthy
W Watch from the Sierra Club
Top Dogs from the Natural Resources Defense Council
Spin Control, White House Style from the Natural Resources Defense Council
Political leaders' views on the environment
Why don't conservatives care about saving the planet? by John Leo
Environmentalists = Terrorists The New Math by Karen Charman
The President of Fantasyland: Bush vs. Science By Ernest Partridge
Environmental Science Under Siege: Fringe Science and the 104th Congress by Representative George E. Brown, Jr.
In Freon easy Amy Silverman tells how the state of Arizona tried to end the ban on CFCs.
Congressmen Challenge Science Behind Climate and Ozone Policies by Nick Sundt
From the President and his defenders
The President's Commitment to Environmental Protection
Bush is Right on the Environment - But He Needs Help to Prove It by Amy Ridenour
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