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Environmental Defense sharply criticized the Bush Administration’s reported plan to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty designed to control global warming.
“If the reports are true, the administration would be pursuing bad environmental policy and bad foreign policy,” said Environmental Defense executive director Fred Krupp. “The Bush Administration’s Read More… Bush Administration Abandons Commitment On Global Warming On March 14th, Environmental Defense sharply criticized a statement made by President Bush reversing his earlier commitment, made during the presidential campaign, to curb emissions of all key pollutants from electric power plants, including carbon dioxide, which is a major contributor to global warming. The statement was contained in a letter from the President Read More… Environmental Defense Deplores Backtracking On Global Warming
Responding to nationally televised claims by the American Chemistry Council that its products have been “carefully scrutinized” for safety, Environmental Defense executive director Fred Krupp asked the chemical industry’s top official to prove it or publicly back down.
Krupp reminded Fred Webber, head of the industry association previously Read More… Environmental Defense Rebukes American Chemistry Council A peer-reviewed study published in the March 26th BioScience underscores the need for further air pollution reductions to protect ecosystems from acid rain. The study chronicles the effects of acid rain on sensitive ecosystems in the Northeast, estimates the impacts of pollution reductions currently required under the Clean Air Act, and projects the ecosystem Read More… More Pollution Cuts Needed To Protect Northeast From Acid Rain Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), met on March 8th for one hour with Richard Armey, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Mfume and Armey discussed several issues including social security reform, public education, racial profiling, President Bush’s tax proposal and slavery in Sudan. Australians for Animals and The Fund for Animals have filed a petition asking the U.S. government to list the eastern North Pacific or “California” gray whale population as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The listing is essential to protect gray whales and their habitat from increasing threats including Read More… Gray Whales Need Protection The Fund for Animals, the Biodiversity Legal Foundation, the Utah Environmental Congress, and individual plaintiffs announced that they have reached a settlement with the federal government in their lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) highly controversial sport hunting season of rare trumpeter swans.
The trumpeter swan is Read More… Trumpeter Swan Advocates and Federal Government Reach Settlement over Sport Hunting of Rare Birds As Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus began performing in the Washington, DC area, several animal welfare organizations, including The Fund for Animals, The Animal Welfare Institute, and The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) – the country’s oldest animal welfare organization — are warning the public about the The Human Rights Campaign praised several key members of Congress recently for introducing federal hate crimes legislation that would assist local law enforcement officials in their investigation and prosecution of hate crimes. The bipartisan bill enters the political arena with a record number of original cosponsors, says HRC.
“We urge Congress to Every ten years since 1790, the federal government has undertaken the enormous task of counting every person in the country as part of a requirement in the Constitution. These figures – used by businesses and demographic experts – help to determine federal contracts and aid. The original intent of a national census, however, was |
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