| Title | Bush sets out plan to dismantle 30 years of environmental laws | |
| Date | Sunday December 05, @05:18AM | |
| Author | admin | |
| Topic | Environment | |
| from the we-don't-need-no-stinkin-regulations dept. | ||
By Geoffrey Lean in Washington
05 December 2004
George
Bush's new administration, and its supporters controlling Congress, are
setting out to dismantle three decades of US environmental protection.
In
little over a month since his re-election, they have announced that
they will comprehensively rewrite three of the country's most important
environmental laws, open up vast new areas for oil and gas drilling,
and reshape the official Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
They
say that the election gave them a mandate for the measures - which,
ironically, will overturn a legislative system originally established
by the Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford - even
though Mr Bush went out of his way to avoid emphasising his
environmental plans during his campaign.
"The election was a
validation of the philosophy and the agenda," said Mike Leavitt, the
Bush-appointed head of the EPA. He points out that over a third of the
agency's staff will become eligible for retirement over the President's
four-year term, enabling him to fill it with people lenient to
polluters.
More at link:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?...
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