Poll Finds Government?EUR??,,????'???s Environmental Record Lacking

A poll by Global Strategy Group released in June 2004 by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies found that 67 per cent of respondents believe the federal government is not doing enough for the environment. Sixty-one per cent of believe state government is not doing enough, and 55 per cent feel local government is also coming up short. The poll?EUR??,,????'???s methodology was telephone interviews to 1,000 American adults, conducted April 26 to May 3, 2004.The margin of error is 3.1 per cent. While the Bush administration has tax incentives for energy-efficient technologies, environmentalist are concerned that the administration has three times proposed to Congress to ease environmental standards for the military, has plans for further drilling for oil in Alaska, and seeks to expand natural gas drilling on federal lands that are off-limits to energy development. In a January 2004 New York address, former Vice President Al Gore said the Bush administration is "wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility and mining industries." He also criticized the administration for cutting cleanup at toxic waste sites and making alterations to the Clean Air Act. "They are radical changes that reverse a century of American policy designed to protect our natural resources," he said.