Sierra Club Magazine September/October 2003 issue

• Number of court cases involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that the Bush administration weighed in on during its first two years: 172
• Number of those cases in which the administration presented arguments hostile to NEPA: 94
• Number of new nuclear plants ordered since the 1979 nuclear accident at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island: 0
• Number of new nuclear plants that could be built with $16 billion in loan guarantees authorized by the Senate in a bill supporting the Bush administration’s nuclear expansion plan: 6
• Approximate percentage of the country’s 6,600 largest industrial facilities and wastewater-treatment plants that were in "significant noncompliance" with pollution limits between 1999 and 2001: 25
• Approximate percentage of firms in noncompliance against which the EPA took formal action: 15
• Percentage by which Rhode Island textile firm Kenyon Industries exceeded permissible levels for discharges of metallic sulfides between 1999 and 2001, according to the EPA: 1,285
• Fines levied by the EPA against Kenyon: 0

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