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Bush, by contrast, has learned to stand oblique to the current of public opinion on the environment, allowing criticism to slide off his back. His lieutenants in Interior, Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have quietly focused on the regulatory route, using administrative guidance and legal loopholes to achieve what Gingrich could not obtain in the full glare of the legislative process. "They are rejecting the full-frontal-assault approach that gets a lot of media attention in favor of death by a thousand strokes of the pen," contends Stoermer. The Republicans are also learning how to spin environmental...
...disgusting move by a federal regulatory agency to satisfy the Bush administration’s political allies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has loosened restrictions on high-polluting industrial plants. The change to the “New Source Review” program will allow the worst air polluters to continue polluting at 1977 levels for many decades to come...
...refineries that cannot afford to reduce pollution to today’s standards should not be operating in the first place. The government should scrap Bush’s New Source Review changes and instead force all factories that pollute above modern limits to clean up their acts. The EPA should enforce these limits, with high financial penalties if necessary. Many companies have put off environmental improvements for far to long, and the burden should not fall on the American people who breathe the polluted...
...only would it be smart policy for the EPA to force companies to comply with modern pollution restrictions; it’s the EPA’s job. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA must consider only requirements of public health and safety and may not engage in cost-benefit analysis when setting national air quality standards. The Bush administration’s new rule seems to skirt the court’s ruling, allowing polluters to pollute more in some parts of their plants as long as they reduce the pollution overall...
...EPA’s recent behavior directly benefits rich corporations—many of which contributed vast amounts to Republicans in the recent elections. It is very disappointing that the EPA, a well-conceived agency with a noble purpose, has been transformed into a tool for promoting the Republican agenda and for benefiting manufacturing interests...