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The fallout from President George W. Bush's environmental policies falls disproportionately on Latinos in the United States, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Sierra Club. "We begin to see a pattern: the disproportionate and unfair burden that the Bush administration policies place on Latino communities in particular," said Sierra Club board member Robbie Cox. The bilingual report said many Latinos suffer from Bush policies: "Children who suffer from asthma and air pollution, farm workers who have been poisoned by the pesticide methyl bromide, workers in unsafe industrialized farms who have been injured and parents who cannot feed their kids fish because of the concentration of mercury." [more]