Another water contamination even in San Francisco Bay. The poor bay just can’t get a break, can it?

• Pooped San Francisco Bay

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Ok, so who doesn’t know the Bush administration’s agenda for the environment, seriously? It’s all about doing everything they can to facilitate business, at any cost. They have watered down the ‘clean water act’, and diluted ( clean air regulations). They dragged their feet in improving auto fuel mileage, fighting California all the way. Although, to be fair, the American public has not really stepped up and demanded more fuel-efficient cars, and seem to be willing to put up with the air pollution they are themselves adding to the air. The Bush Administration has opened up the American west to extensive drilling for oil and natural gas and mining for coal, without regard to the damage this has caused to water tables in that parched region. They have delisted creatures from the endangered species list for reasons of profit and private land ownership, while trying to use bogus ’scientific’ reasons for doing so, and when that didn’t work, they just censored the science. Climate change, anyone? Hey, I’m a scientist, and the way science gets done is by having researchers vigorously test each other’s scientific ideas and data, over and over. Careers are made by being tough, by proving things very meticulously and certainly not by simply accepting whatever any scientist publishes in a journal. We challenge, then challenge some more.

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