A great LTE by an Iowa Sierran from the Des Moines Register this morning. Lyle Krewson ___________________________________________________ Letters To The Editor More assaults on environment This anti-environmental administration has failed to create an energy plan that relies on conservation and renewable resources. Instead, the Bush administration wants to open our national parks and refuges for oil drilling and exploration on the 100th anniversary of the National Wildlife Refuge system. (Teddy Roosevelt would be outraged.) In August, the Bush administration released its Clear Skies Initiative weakening the Clean Air Act by allowing older factories to expand without installing modern pollution-control technology. The Environ- mental Protection Agency's latest report on the environment ignores the danger of global warming. The administration is pushing a "Healthy Forest Initiative" that would increase logging in national forests under the guise of reducing wildfires. The plan would grant more corporate welfare to timber companies. As the media focus on the economy, health care and the situation in Iraq, people are not seeing enough coverage of environmental legislation coming out of Washington, D.C. Gerald Neff, Pleasant Valley. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________ Lyle R. Krewson Sierra Club Conservation Organizer 6403 Aurora Avenue #3 Des Moines, IA 50322-2862 515/276-8947 515/238-7113 - cel [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ___________________________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp