OPINION/COMMENTARY

Environmental Groups Get Tax Dollars from the Bush Administration, Urge Voters to Dump Bush

It’s obvious that the environmental movement is determined to oust President Bush from office this November. Spokesmen for the nation’s leading green groups are positively apoplectic in denouncing the Administration....

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has joined the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) to mount anti-Bush efforts in key battleground states. In New Mexico, for instance, LCV is recruiting volunteers in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, while the Sierra Club has added two full-time campaign staffers, and NRDC has aired at least two radio spots.

Incredibly, taxpayer money may indirectly subsidize some of these efforts, and the money comes from the Bush Administration! During the first three years of the Administration, NRDC received $2.6 million from the EPA. And NRDC isn’t the only environmental group profiting from federal giveaways.

Audits by the White House Office of Management and Budget reveal that federal grants to disclosing environmental groups totaled $71,989,835 in 1998. By 2004, federal assistance climbed to $143,266,852, a net gain of $71,061,883....