Many environmental
organizations send their supporters calendars of desert cacti in
bloom, lynx lunging through powder snow or fly fishers casting into
roaring mountain streams. Not Earthjustice. This year, the
environmental law firm’s 2002 calendar profiles 12 Bush
administration appointees in Technicolor rhetoric. Each month
features a not always flattering color photograph of a different
appointee, a box that explains how their job affects the
environment and a few unfortunate facts about their background.
Over the course of the year, calendar readers will learn that when
Interior Deputy Secretary J. Steven Griles worked for the Reagan
administration, he failed to enforce mining regulations; Attorney
General John Ashcroft says he is “a private environmentalist”; and
Ann Veneman, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, assured
California farmers that if Bush was elected, they would no longer
be subject to “burdensome” environmental
regulations.
“Over the past year, the Bush
administration has made almost weekly attacks on the environment
and public health,” says Maria Weidner, a Washington, D.C.-based
policy analyst for Earthjustice. “This calendar is a good reminder
of who is behind the scenes and how it doesn’t take much time to
ruin our environment.”
To order a free
(Dis)Appointments: Bush Officials and the Administration’s
Environmental Record – Year 1 calendar, contact
Earthjustice at www.earthjustice.org or 202/667-450.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Bush administration wall hanging.
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