EPA - Environmental Pollution Agency?
Anyone who has any doubts about intent of the Bush Administration and the disastrous implications for the world’s environment should be sure to read "Environmental Officials See Chance to Shape Regulations" by Elizabeth Shogren and Kenneth R. Weiss in the Los Angeles Times on
Wednesday November 10, 2004
Shogren and Weiss quote Environmental Protection Agency Adminstrator Mike Levitt as saying that four more years give administration officials an opportunity to mold the environmental agency's professional staffs to more closely reflect their (the Bush Administration’s) priorities. Leavitt said 35% of the EPA's staff would become eligible to retire in the next four years, giving him a chance to remake from the inside out the agency that takes the lead in enforcing air and water pollution and the cleanup of toxic dumps.
For starters, the administration says it will not reconsider regulating carbon dioxide emissions — despite scientific alarm over global warming — because such a policy would hurt the domestic coal industry and send jobs overseas.
I don’t know about you, but I can breathe better already.
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