One of the themes this website has regularly pursued has been the Bush regime's mounting assault on

One of the themes this website has regularly pursued has been the Bush regime's mounting assault on enviornemntal legislation (specifically the Clean Air and Water acts, but also the ban on mountaintop mining and tailings dumping in rivers, not to mention the refusal to endorse even the minimal provisons of the Kyoto Treaty).

Now two US groups have linked the funding of Bush's backers directly with not only lobbying by the country's worst corporate offenders but direct funding of the electoral campaign and the Republican party.

Also below, the Environmental News Service announces that three states are to sue one of these power companies for violations of the Clean Air act after the Bush-controlled EPA refused to enforce the law.