Bush sets out plan to dismantle 30 years of environmental laws

[baby_bear]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=9001810

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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.
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I wonder how they will find environmental scientists and engineers who went to the bother of getting masters' and doctorates because they revere industry and money and sneer at the environment, and apparently want to work for EPA just to undermine it. That would be an interesting resume.

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[glitch]

1. Well, if they say it often enough it must be true.

"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."

Uh huh. I think we should validate them as criminals serving time in the fabulous penitentiaries they've built.

[illflem]

2. Good way to fight the federal land give away

is the to alert the pro-gun crowd to the fact that they are losing their happy hunting and fishing grounds to the republican public land to industry free for all.
Many will find that they've been tree-huggers all along without even knowing it.
Letters to the NRA work.