WASHINGTON - April 22 - Sierra Club's Ed Hopkins's, Director of the Environmental Quality Program, reaction to President Bush's Earth Day announcement of a new wetlands policy:

"An Earth Day photo-op can't hide the damage the Bush administration's policies are doing to America's wetlands. In January 2003, the Bush administration ordered the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to immediately stop enforcing the Clean Water Act for as many as 20 million acres of wetlands. Now the Bush administration says it wants to restore three million acres -- clearly that's a contradiction. While we still need to see the details, it seems clear that we'd be better off if the Bush administration simply enforced the law that's on the books."

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