And about Bush being a frick'n environmentalist and shit:
January 2001 - Gale Norton appointed Secretary of the Interior, formerly a senior attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a group funded by several leading mining, logging, and oil companies. This pattern of cronyism is repeated throughout the Bush presidency.
March 2001 - Bush makes his first attempt to roll back the “Roadless Rule” passed by President Clinton. This rollback would open up 58 million acres of national forest to logging, roadbuilding, and coal, oil and gas leasing. CO2 emissions not covered. Arsenic suspended in water.
May 2001 - Cheney's Energy Plan calling for the expediting of drilling on public lands, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the western Arctic.
September 2001 - EPA downplays 9/11 Pollution
December 2001 - EPA reverses on rat poison
February 2002 - Clear Skies Plan: The Bush administration proposes its Clear Skies plan for power plants. The plan would increase coal use by 79 million tons by 2020 and weaken the Clean Air Act.
May 2002 - Nukes around Yucca Mountain
June 2002 - Bush Speaks about Global Warming - In a public speech, President Bush denigrates a report by his own administration on global warming, saying it was “put out by the bureaucracy.”
September 2002 - EPA omits global warming
October 2002 - EPA halts toxic waste cleanup
November 2002 - Bush allows oil drilling in Padre National Park, home to 11 endangered species and host to 800,000 tourists annually.
January 2003 - Bush allows more logging
April 2003 - Norton cuts a deal in Utah - Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton cuts a deal with the state of Utah to allow oil and gas drilling in millions of acres of wilderness.
May 2003 - EPA chief resigns
September 2003 - Ban on PCB's lifted - The EPA lifts a 25-year ban on the sale of land contaminated with PCBs, a chemical linked to neurological problems and cancer in humans, thereby opening more than 1,000 toxic sites to “economic redevelopment.”
October 2003 - Clean Air Act Weakened, Roadless Rule Exempted - The Bush administration exempts Alaska’s Tongass rainforest from the landmark “Roadless Rule” that protects national forests from development.
May 2004 - The EPA’s Air Office declares formaldehyde to be one ten-thousandth as toxic as the previous assessments.
October 2004 - James Hansen, NASA’s top climate expert, criticizes the Bush administration for altering news releases, revising government reports and rejecting scientific results to keep the public in the dark about the dangers of global warming.
December 2004 - EPA allows more sewage
February 2005 - The U.S. delegation to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Program opposes legally binding global action to combat mercury pollution, favoring only voluntary measures. The United States is one of only a handful of countries to take this position.
March 2005 - The New York Times finds more than 200 instances in which television stations aired videos by the EPA as actual news.
July 2005 - Sonar threatens whales
August 2005 - BLM weakens policy on drilling
October 2005 - Katrina unleashes toxins
February 2006 - Top NASA climate expert James Hansen goes public with charges that the administration tried to prevent him from publicly discussing the risks of global warming.
March 2006 - EPA weakens health standards, Secretary of the Interior Norton resigns. Within a year she takes a job as a general counsel for Shell Oil’s U.S. exploration and production operations.
December 2006 - EPA weakens reporting
January 2007 - Bush issues drilling permits
February 2007 - FEMA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry covers up the health threat posed by formaldehyde in trailers provided to Gulf Coast residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
March 2007 - President Bush takes grizzly bears off the endangered species list, opening the door for the loss of bear habitat and increasing the potential for conflicts between bears and humans.
April 2007 - Supreme Court reverses CO2 rule
October 2007 - Bush censors CDC
December 2007 - At the U.N. Climate Change meetings in Bali, Indonesia, President Bush refuses to accept mandatory caps on emissions and tries to block an international agreement to curb global warming, EPA blocks vehicle standards
January 2008 - Wolves fall off endangered species list, Bush ignores polar bears
May 2009 - More oil exploration
June 2008 - PCB's imported from Mexico, White House ignores EPA
July 2008 - No regulation of Co2
September 2008 - Bush proposes to change Endangered Species Association
October 2008 - EPA doesn't ban pesticide
November 2008 - Supreme Court limits protection of whales
December 2008 - Bush administration begins leasing public land to oil and gas companies near some of America's most precious natural treasuring in Utah. More than 100,000 acres are made available, including near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dinosaur National Monument, and Nine Mile Canyon, EPA administrator declares no regulation for Carbon Dioxide
