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The Polluters' President
The Texas governor talks green, but he walks with the industry giants
by Ken SilversteinIn May, Texas Governor George W. Bush staked his claim to be the second
"environmental president" in his family. The front-runner for the GOP
presidential nomination, Bush said that he didn't want his state to
become a "dumping ground" for toxic waste, acknowledged that global warming is
a serious problem, and declared that environmental issues
are "incredibly important" for the next century.Yet for the past four years Bush has governed the most polluted state
in the country. Texas ranks first in the amount of cancer-causing chemicals
pumped annually into the air and water, the number of hazardous-waste
incinerators, total toxic releases to the environment, and carbon dioxide and
mercury emissions from industry.When it comes to environmental spending, however, Texas ranks 49th. A
majority of Texans live in areas that either flunk federal ozone
standards or are in danger of flunking. Houston, the nation's oil- and
petrochemical-industry headquarters, is an ecological disaster, its
coastal waters fouled by chemical spills and its air quality the worst in the
nation outside of Los Angeles.
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