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BUSH'S ENVIRONMENTAL INCURSIONS NOW INCLUDE THE DOLPHIN Sat Feb 1,10:06 PM ET WASHINGTON -- Last Tuesday, as the world was gathering to hear what George Bush had to say about war with Iraq, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., rose up in the Senate to note that the commander in chief had already gone to war against the environment. She mentioned incursions against clean air and clean water, all announced in after-hours, Friday-night releases which proclaimed that in pursuit of cleaner air and water, present standards had to be rolled back, while trees had to be chopped down to save forests. Most important, she pointed out a new and unforgivable target of the president's assault on the world of nature, the dolphin. He may rue the day. He is messing with one of the most undeniably delightful of God's creations, one loved by humans since the time of the Greeks. He might as well declare open season on golden retrievers. President Bush has put dolphins in harm's way from Mexican fishermen, and he better expect to hear from the schoolchildren of America. Fourteen years ago, they were aroused to action when a House member wrote a bill to save dolphins from the fishermen's nets that were a death trap for hundreds of thousands of them. Since the bill passed, dolphin deaths have declined dramatically, from about 100,000 a year to 10,000, although some scientists think they are under-reported. Now President Bush again wants to repair what is not broken. He has changed the rules. Under pressure from Mexico, whose fishermen have been shut out of U.S. markets because of their anti-dolphin practices, the U.S. Commerce Department, despite disputed findings by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, loosened the rules so that Mexican fishermen will be eligible for the 'dolphin-safe' labels. They just have to say they didn't kill dolphins to get their catch....
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