This is a good analysis of how little the Republican Congress achieved in terms of causing additional harm to the environment. What it leaves out is their refusal to do anything positive to help it, for instance, by addressing global warming.

As someone who receives daily compilations of environmental news, I'm struck by the wishful thinking "informing" this story. While it's true that the GOP didn't manage to push through certain planks of their often truly anti-environmental platform, the reporter omits the many "successes" they did have and the cynical maliciousness with which Congress went about directly and indirectly distributing their pro-industry pork (has this reporter never heard of the (still top secret) energy meetings Cheney held with his buddies?) The extensiveness and sheer abundance of the GOP's plans to plunder & pollute the planet was unprecedented. That much is accurate. But the article's naive "gosh, things could have been worse" slant omits the ... More »

I judge this to be a fair, factual story on the GOP's failure to destroy everything in sight. I helped in the grassroot revolt against their destructive plans. We won a surprising number of political and court cases.