Sierra Club Slams Bush for Erosion of Coastal Protection

Environment News Service, September, 2004

WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — Cuts in federal funding for coastal and environmental protection programs, subsidizing pollution and corporate welfare, and manipulation or suppression of science on the part of the Bush administration have been bad for America's beaches, a new report by the Sierra Club warns.

No friend of Bush administration policies, the Sierra Club has produced, "No Day at the Beach: How the Bush Administration Is Eroding Coastal Protection," which details how Bush policies threaten America’s four coasts: the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, and America’s Freshwater Coast, the Great Lakes.

The report says that increasing mercury contamination, nutrient and sewage pollution, oil and gas development in sensitive coastal areas, destruction of coastal...

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