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...sound very familiar over the next month or two, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Bush's budget "requested adequate resources to fund necessary IRS improvements," adding that Bush's $9.4 billion was a 7 percent increase over the year before. (Which is a lot more than, say, the EPA is getting...
...hasn't been a great couple of months for Washington's environmental lobby. Bush's new budget was delivered Monday; it cuts roughly $500 million from the EPA's coffers. In addition, the new administration has advocated oil exploration in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge, struck down newly enacted emissions limits for power stations and abandoned updated standards for the amount of arsenic in water. And so, despite assurances from an Interior Department spokesman that Thursday's announcement simply represents a way out from the weight of accumulating citizen lawsuits and "to help us move toward a rational system," Bush...
...even as recently as January, with the Bush-Cheney team in and the Clinton-Gore team out, there was reason for environmentalists to hope. Whitman, who had built a respectable environmental record as New Jersey Governor, was a pleasant surprise as EPA chief, and Bush had sometimes belied expectations, besting the bright green Al Gore during the campaign with his call for mandatory caps on power-plant emissions. What's more, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill--former Alcoa chairman--turned out to be a Kyoto backer, drafting a memo for the new President arguing that the only problem with...
Last week, in a remarkably irresponsible move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the reversal of a standard proposed at the end of President Bill Clinton’s term that would have reduced the amount of arsenic permitted in drinking water by 80 percent. The current limit, which was set in 1942, has been widely judged as inadequate to keep America’s drinking water safe. However, to the jubilation of the mining industry and other arsenic producers, the Bush administration is holding to the old standard, claiming that it will eventually be lowered but only after more...
...National Academy of Sciences, the current maximum arsenic level allowed by law results in a 1-in-1,000 risk to men of developing lung or bladder cancer. Though no recent studies have been conducted on Americans, the evidence from international reports is compelling, and the researchers urged the EPA to reduce the allowable arsenic level “as soon as possible.” The current level of exposure will cause irreparable harm to Americans, and the reduction suggested by the EPA under Clinton was well advised...