Let's see, Bush has a decently environmentally friendly house, so therefore he cares about the environment. Gore, hypocritically, has a big, energy consuming house, so therefore he never did anything for the environment. Right? Did I get that right?
Allow me to point out, yet again, many of you are just bs-ing and don't know what you're talking about.
The public record says otherwise. The Bush administration has severly weakened and modified our core environmental protection laws and stacked agencies like the interior department, epa, etc., with political ideologues with no applicable training or knowledge, or former lobbyists in charge of the agencies they once battled against. For instance, Gale Norton, former mining industry lobbyist was secretary of the interior, J. Steven Griles was an oil and coal lobbyist was (is?) Deputy Secretary of the Interior, Lynn Scarlett, CEO of the Reason Foundation, some b.s. libertarian outfit funded by paper, oil, and chemical companies is Undersecretary of the Interior, David Lauriski, a coal industry executive and lobbyist is Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety, and on and on and on.
Any cursory look at Bush and Clinton's environmental records show a huge difference between the two. Bush has rolled back more laws, dismantled more protections, and gutted regulations more than any other president. The Clinton administration was far from perfect but they strengthened most aspects of clean air laws, they continued superfund cleanups (Bush has stopped all of them), the implemented new-source review, they helped craft the Kyoto agreement (congress wouldn't ratify it), they protected an enormous amount of land, creating parks, wildrerness areas, monuments, and they created energy effeciency standards and they created the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which was one of the most kick-ass acts of large-scale conservation any president has ever done- and Bush dismantled it.
You don't think Clinton accomplished anything because, yet again, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/qroadless.asp#3
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2...1-01-19-06.asp
http://www.wilderness.org/Library/Do...BushRecord.cfm
http://www.nrdc.org/legislation/rollbacks/execsum.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Sep24.html
http://cooperativeresearch.org/proje..._enviro_record
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...900776_pf.html