Earth Day a "sad day" for US: Sierra Club ecologists

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Sierra Club released a new book timed to coincide with Earth Day, slamming President George W. Bush for pursuing "the worst environmental policy" in almost a century and calling it a "sad day" for the United States.

"Bush has done his best, in only three years, to break our national compact on environmental progress and turn the clock back -- not years or decades, but a full century," said Sierra Club President Carl Pope, one of the authors of "Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress."

He claims Bush, who took office in 2001 and is seeking a second mandate in the November 2 election, is the first president since Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 to close out his term with the...