Kerry or Bush and why?

[akaria]

Personaly, if i could vote, i would vote for Kerry.
Bush has sone too much to the environment, and the health of the american public, to just let it slip by.

* he took away all limits on CO2 emissions

* he is allowing 7 times as much mercury in to the environment
-----mercury is a known nerve toxin and cause of birthdefects
-----Bush classified mercury, a nerve toxin, in to the same 'benign' catagory as greenhouse gasses knowing this

* he is releasing land for sale that was previously banned on the account that it was too toxic

* his chief of staff has continually been in contact with ultra conservative lobbying groups (highly funded by oil companies) to help downplay the findings of the EPA on the oil companies' impact on the environment

* he modifies the EPA reports to the point that the EPA will not release them because they are so untrue

* he helps to let the oil companies mine national parks that would take hundreds of years to grow back and would only provide acouple hours worth of oil( but the oil company mining would none the less get several million out of the deal

I did all of this reasearch myself, it was not taken off of some website with a list of wrongs. Below are my resourses(mostly news papers and all credible as to truthfullness, i did a paper for my AP Environmental class so they had to be ) look at them for more info

Bibliography
Pollutants, Health Risks Rise in Iraq Region. 22, May
2004.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...ollute01.shtml
The Environmental Impacts of War. 20, May 2004.
http://www.islandpress.org/eco-compass/war/
This website had lots of factual information on the
impacts of war on the environment. It also had
in-depth information about the intricacies of war and
how each aspect involved the environment.
Earth Crash. 20, May 2004.
http://eces.org/archive/ec/population/military.shtml
Environmental Impacts of War. 20, May 2004,
http://www.ems.org/war/risks.html
Bush Plan to Drill Rocky Mountain Front Would Yield
Less Than One Week's Gas Supply. 26 May, 2004.
http://www.bushgreenwatch.org
Bush covers up climate research. September 21, 2003.
24,May 2004.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter...046363,00.html
This article covered the EPA reports that Bush’s
administration modified and the emails that went back
and forth between the chief of staff at the White
House Council on Environmental Quality and a director
of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Cheney Seeking Supreme Court Review of Energy Panel
Case. September 17, 2003. 20, May 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...p16¬Found=true

EPA lifts ban on selling PCB sites. 23, May 2004.
http://www.usatoday.com/newe/washing...09-01-epa-usat
_x.htm
EPA Backs Away From Issue of Auto Emissions. 20, May
2004.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...g28¬Found=true
This article details why the EPA is not putting any
restrictions on auto emissions.
Bush Broadens abortion gag rule. 20, May 2004.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...6651675.htm?1c