Enviromental News – Bush’s Pardons and the High-Speed Rail Act of 2008
November 29, 2008 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Recipes
Kate Sheppard, of Grist, Environmental News & Commentary, reports that three of George Bush’s recent Presidential pardons for people found guilty of crimes against nature.
• Daniel Figh Pue III, of Conroe, Texas, who was convicted of illegal treatment, storage, and disposal of a hazardous waste without a permit.
• Leslie Owen Collier, of Charleston, Mo., who pleaded guilty in 1995 to unlawfully killing three bald eagles in southeast Missouri. Apparently he was putting pesticide in hamburger meat in order to kill coyotes, but that killed a bunch of other animals, like these three bald eagles. He was convicted of “unauthorized use …read more




