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...made some very strong statements, I think. The arsenic issue is one in which our EPA Administrator said we're going to reduce the arsenic in water. And she said, I want to make sure that the level to which we reduce it is scientifically-based. And somehow, that was [taken] to be that we're for arsenic in water...
...Despite Bush?s recent assaults on environmental protection, he insists that Gore would have been no better. The president killed tougher standards for arsenic in drinking water, but the Clinton-Gore team only approved them after the election to "set up" Bush, Nader says. And while Gore might have vetoed Congress? repeal of job safety rules, he claims, the veto would have been overridden by conservatives in Congress. That?s far from certain. What is unequivocal is Nader?s newfound love of electoral politics. In next year?s Congressional elections, he hopes to field a slate of Green candidates...
...terms of political capital, looked prohibitively high. And so it seemed as if the environmentalists - after watching with what must have been a perverse glee as Bush spent much of his first 90-odd days galvanizing their ranks with eco-unfriendly announcements on everything from carbon dioxide emissions to arsenic levels in drinking water...
...supposed to keep the President in a healthy political glow. But on one key issue recently, Rove stood by while Bush turned as gray as a hazy day in Houston. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty, suspended new arsenic standards for drinking water - and began to look suspiciously like the eco-villain Al Gore warned us about. Moderate Republicans were getting jittery. So last week Rove and other aides pulled out the green paints and brushes and set to work on Bush's environmental makeover - a series of announcements meant...
...Carney: This is definitely the White House trying to win back a few points. These issues of arsenic in the water and toxins in the air have provided a faultline for the administration's critics, for late-night comics, for anyone interested in taking a chink out of Bush's armor...