By the numbers - Watch: keeping tabs on the Bush administration - Brief Article

Sierra, May-June, 2003

* Percent increase in atmospheric C[O.sub.2] over the past century: 30

* Number of states suing the EPA for failing to regulate greenhouse gases: 7

* Estimated savings, under the current tax code, for purchase of a fuel-efficient hybrid vehicle: $3,729

* Estimated savings, under a new administration proposal, for small-business purchase of a Hummer H1: $33,634

* Percent decline in total amount paid in criminal penalties for environmental crimes since Bush took office: 34

* Percent decline in civil penalties paid: 50

* Percent of logging projects completed last year in Bitterroot National Forest: 70

* Percent of watershed-restoration and road-removal projects completed: 3

* Number of years since the pesticide methyl bromide was recognized as an ozone-depleting substance: 11

* Number of exemptions the Bush administration is seeking this year from the international ban on methyl bromide: 54