These two are responsible for GMOs being unleashed on the American public and Taylor is responsible for Tom Vilsak!!!

"For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain, until then may I too abide, to dispel the misery of the world." - Shantideva

What has happened?  All the Grist staff has already sent their brains on Christmas holiday?

Dubya wins hands down.

Cheers.

sly Dick Cheney should have been the #1 eco-villain of the century.

that George W. did not make this list.  

I was a little surprised to see that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff didn't make the list.  But then, perhaps I'm being a wee bit too hard on Mr. Chertoff.  After all, it was Congress that gave him too much power in the first place.  And Congress probably gave him that power because they thought that's what we wanted.

If we want to save the birds, the beast, and the special wild places,  we'll have to stop hating our fellow humans.

                  Merry Christmas!  

Let the jaguars return!

Does Grist do this feature every year? If so, then Bush and Cheney probably weren't on the list basically because if they were, it would have been one of them in first place and one in second every year for the past eight. I promise you, whenever they were an option, they owned the vote.  So...  Good riddance to bad bull$%#!!

That said, without them on the ballot, my vote goes to Inhofe. Partially because he's a pollutocrat douchebag, but mostly because unlike a surprising number of other environmental villains, he won his election, which means this year counts as part of all the damage he's going to do in the future.  Oh, well.  If we woke up Virginia this year, maybe we can wake up Oklahoma in '14.

By blocking the free expansion of Hydrogen Technology, they have drawn out the time scale for implementation of 21st Century clean fuel.

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the Bridge. J.T.Kirk

I don't know why neither of the above made your list.  

The current pope -- Pope John Paul Ringo III or whoever happens to hold that seat right now -- is a criminal for encouraging an already over-populated planet to keep on over-populating.  

Think about it: one hundred thousand new people to feed, clothe, and house EVERY DAY.  Which inevitably destroys habitat, accelerates the production of atmospheric GHG's, and contributes to the depletion of soils, freshwater, and ocean fisheries.  Among a hundred other problems.

So until the Pope encourages his followers to adopt BIRTH CONTROL and to maintain a sustainable global population, he remains Criminal #1, in my opinion.

Dubya's incomparable legacy of waste, corruption, incompetency and outright hostility to science and to the environment needs no further description.

But Newt Gingrich?  Please.  He's a piker by comparison.

While not the "coal miner's daughter",I am a daughter of generations of Kentuckians who lived in communities of coal miners and saw,firsthand,the devastation of strip mining. It is literally the rape of our earth.It strips the earth of it's ability to renew itself,to bear fruit. The analogies are endless.
Today,we read about the cost of ash,just ash,from coal. People,if you believe the hype of "clean coal",I have a bridge in Wasilla that will take you to the Promise Land!!
Seriously,THERE IS NO CLEAN COAL!!

I had to laugh a bit at this because it seems so SANE!
I mean we even have shows that promote (NBC'S TLC) tha program shows that glorify having 18,count 'em,EIGHTEEN,kids!
It's just stupid.
Do they THINK what the world will be ike for the children,grandchildren,great...
No would be my guess.