3/13/01
Abandons pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
3/28/01
Rejects Kyoto Protocol.
4/9/01
Pushes to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
5/10/01
Refuses to name industry participants in Cheney’s energy task force.
7/6/01
Reduces funding for greenhouse-gas reductions in developing countries.
9/21/01
Uses terrorist attacks as excuse to weaken protection of wetlands.
10/25/01
Guts tough mining protections on federal lands.
10/31/01
Issues weaker arsenic-in-drinking-water standard.
1/14/02
Allows expanded oil-drilling in Big Cypress National Preserve.
2/14/02
Rolls back power-plant pollution standards.
2/15/02
Backs Yucca Mountain plan for nuclear waste dump.
2/18/02
Eric Schaeffer, a top EPA official, resigns in protest of Bush policies.
3/29/02
Citing national security, Pentagon seeks environmental laws exemption.
4/1/02
Misses deadline to boost automobile efficiency.
4/11/02
Allows mining in Everglades.
5/23/02
Rolls back air-conditioner energy-efficiency standards.
7/1/02
Kills corporate tax on polluters that funds cleanup of toxic waste sites.
7/19/02
Opposes Senate-backed renewable energy requirement.
8/22/02
Calls for increased logging in the name of fire prevention.
8/26-9/4/02
Only major leader not at UN Summit on Sustainable Development.
10/8/02
Stacks panel on lead poisoning with industry officials.
11/12/02
Announces plan to allow snowmobiles in two national parks.
11/22/02
Repeals rules requiring older factories to cut pollution emissions.
12/4/02
Defers action on global warming.
01/10/03
Plans to weaken Clean Water Act wetlands protections.
Compiled by Eric Ditzian. Sources: Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council.
