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12, 2004
An excerpt from Facing South, which is published 40 times a year by the Institute for Southern Studies and Southern Exposure magazine.
(Editor’s note: To join the Institute for Southern Studies and get a year’s worth of Southern Exposure and Facing South, visit www.southernstudies.org)
- Number of U.S. residents who live in areas the EPA considers “too smoggy to be healthy,” in millions: 170
- Percent that federal prosecution of criminal pollution cases has dropped since 2001: 30
- Acres of wetlands removed from Clean Water Act protection since 2001, in millions: 20
- Number of babies born each year with enough mercury pollution to cause “severe health problems” including brain damage: 630,000
- Number of states and territories with fish consumption advisories due to mercury pollution: 44
- Percent by which current administration proposals would increase allowable mercury pollution: 500
- Number of ex-National Park Service workers who last January charged Bush administration with “short-changing, ignoring, or violating” conservation policies: 183
- Number of scientists who in April charged current administration with “manipulation and abuse of science” for political ends: 62
- Number of senior EPA officials that have resigned in protest since 2001: 2
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