Word: epa
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...whip Tom DeLay, a former exterminator, says the Environmental Protection Agency has allowed fire ants to trample the South. Georgia dentist Charles Norwood says federal regulators have made it hard for children to believe in the tooth fairy. And Cass Ballenger, a North Carolina plastic-packaging manufacturer, says labyrinthine EPA rules have cost his business more than $1 million. Now, in the name of regulatory reform, DeLay, Norwood and Ballenger are attempting to de-fang and defund their old bureaucratic nemeses. Yet a closer look at their tales reveals that in terms of accuracy, they are more suited...
...including one allowing states to deny Medicaid funding of abortions in cases of rape or incest. The House also passed a landmark bill that would broadly deregulate the telecommunications industry. And the g.o.p. leadership succeeded in reversing an earlier vote and steering through a measure that would strip the epa of funds next year to enforce the nation's major antipollution laws...
Moderate Republicans in the House joined Democrats to reject, in a 212-to-206 vote, a Republican initiative that would have limited the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement powers. The vote killed a series of riders attached to a spending bill that would have barred the epa from using its funds to enforce such regulations as those governing commercial development of the nation's wetlands. Fifty-one Republicans broke ranks to block the proposed limits...
...remember that the Republicans' goal is to pass deregulation," saidTIME's Nina Burleigh. "No matter what Clinton says, they're going to push for deregulation." The Republicans maintain that they are not anti-environment, only anti-bureaucracy. The House vote reinstated 17 provisions which would block the EPA from regulatingcommercial development in wetlands, air pollution from refineries, water pollution from city sewers, and pesticides in foods...
House Democrats and moderate Republicans joined forces to defeat 17 measures designed to stop new EPA rule-making for one year.Part of a $79.4 billion bill that funds environmental, housing, veterans, and space programs for next year, the amendments would have halted regulations that keep drinking water free of arsenic, reduce toxic emissions for oil refineries, check pesticides in food, and control sewage overflows. GOP freshman Dave Macintosh, who chaired former Vice President Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness, tried to convince his congressional colleagues that the EPA is ideologically driven and that the targeted regulations "actually, in some ways...