Why did the Bush administration earned a “C” for its environmental policies? The Free Market Environmentalism marks the environmental polices as being the one hampering the overall economic productivity of the country and as such lowering the enterprise of the nation on the freedom front (Yandle and Shaw, 2003). The PERC reports that the reason for the low ranking of the Bush’s environmental policies was quite interesting. The foremost factor was that the Bush administration refused to accept the efforts by the European countries that aimed to proscribe the hereditarily altered crops in lieu of the fact that these crops could in fact decrease the requirement for a number of chemicals. Furthermore, the environmental policy made it mandatory to label the organic composition of the crops for the consumer information. Secondly, the PERC accuses the administration on its efforts to link the profits from the oil exploration in Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) that they would be utilized in the improvement of the environment (a dubious justification). Thirdly, the Bush administration rejected the clause of the policy set by the Clinton administration that the government had the right to access the risk management policies of the organizations.
According to Grewell (2002) the environmental policies of the Bush administration as such that the part of its estate tax as well as the part that relates to the agricultural subsidies as such that they hamper and inhibit the use of land and innovative ways on the utilization of the land. These estate and agriculture taxes have more impact on the farmers for the reason that they are fifteen times more than an average American would be liable to pay and due to this high rate many farmers would be compelled to sell there farming equipments and assets. These laws have made it harder for the farmers and in fact hurt the agricultural enterprise of the country....................
