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...study that formed the basis for the EPA's tightening of gasoline and clean air regulations is the center of this debate. In an effort to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release data from this study, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed three FOIA requests last week to the EPA...
William Kovacs, vice president of environment and regulatory affairs for the Chamber of Commerce, said the reforms involve changing regulations that would cost taxpayers anywhere from $50 to $150 billion. Given this impact, Kovacs said it is only reasonable to expect the EPA to disclose the study on which they are basing their actions...
...What they have disclosed are the results that they want to talk about," Kovacs said. "We want our researchers to analyze the data for themselves. The EPA can believe what they want to believe...
Officials at the Chamber of Commerce say that if the EPA is going to implement such drastic measures to improve what they deem the poor health of the country, they need to justify their actions...
...companies are feigning surprise, but to many, the lawsuits were long overdue. "The EPA has been dealing with a long list of languished initiatives that were forgotten during the environmentally lax Republican administrations," says TIME environment editor Charles Alexander. The EPA came on very aggressively under Clinton, says Alexander, and Browner has been particularly effective. And it's not just these seven companies who are taking note of the change in the political weather. "Business is paying more attention to environmental laws these days," adds Alexander. "And these lawsuits will definitely bolster the Clinton administration's image as being tough...