NY Times Magazine 'Up In Smoke'

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

The Bush Administrations environmental misdeeds:

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/magazine/04BUSH.html

[LittleApple81]

1. Wow, that was long. And depressing. And horrible. Bush* 's policies

are criminal.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. kick, with appreciation to the NYT for this story

[stepnw1f]

3. Now It's A Matter

of getting other people to give a damn. Many still believe "Global Warming" is a myth.

[SharonAnn]

4. Thanks for posting this. I would've missed it.

This is really important to our Air Quality Task Force here.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. kick

[Bread and Circus]

6. Snippit

"The changes to new-source review have been portrayed by the president and his advisers as a compromise between the twin goals of preserving the environment and enabling business, based on a desire to make environmental regulations more streamlined and effective. But a careful examination of the process that led to the new policy reveals a very different story, and a different motivation. I conducted months of extensive interviews with those involved in the process, including current and former government officials, industry representatives, public health researchers and environmental advocates. (Top environmental officials in the Bush administration declined to comment for this article.) Through those interviews and the review of hundreds of pages of documents and transcripts, one thing has become clear: the administration's real problem with the new-source review program wasn't that it didn't work. The problem was that it was about to work all too well -- in the way, finally, that it was designed to when it was passed by Congress more than 25 years ago.

Having long flouted the new-source review law, many of the nation's biggest power companies were facing, in the last months of the 1990's, an expensive day of reckoning. E.P.A. investigators had caught them breaking the law. To make amends, the power companies were on the verge of signing agreements to clean up their plants, which would have delivered one of the greatest advances in clean air in the nation's history. Then George W. Bush took office, and everything changed"

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[Robin Hood]

7. Someone send this to Nader.

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