Bush Assailed on Boston Harbor Cleanup
President Bush is an “environmental hypocrite” who has abandoned a commitment to help with the $6.5-billion cleanup of polluted Boston Harbor, environmentalists charged Tuesday.
Bush used the harbor for a national television spot in his presidential campaign against Gov. Michael S. Dukakis during the summer of 1988. The 30-second ad labeled the harbor as the most polluted in the nation and ridiculed Dukakis for failing to clean it up.
“George Bush used the Boston Harbor to sell himself as the environmental President,” said Gary Cohen, director of the National Toxics Campaign Fund. “But President Bush has turned out to be an environmental hypocrite. He should put his money where his mouth is and pay for half of the bill to clean up the harbor.”
The Bush Administration has been reluctant to follow through on a $100-million authorization approved by Congress in 1987 to help with the project, and the President cut $20 million earmarked for the cleanup from his budget proposal for fiscal 1991.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
