Word: epa
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...knew it was too good to be true. A former oil executive calling for reduced carbon dioxide emissions. A Republican candidate chastising the country to treat global warming seriously. The director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assuring other countries that the United States would combat greenhouse gas emissions. But then there was a letter from President George W. Bush to Senators Helms, Hagel, Craig and Roberts, saying "[W]e must be very careful not to take actions that could harm consumers. This is especially true given the incomplete state of scientific knowledge of the causes of, and solutions...
First, consider the problem of personnel--specifically, the newly confirmed director of the EPA, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman has been what Vice President Dick Cheney called a "good soldier," or, to avoid mixing metaphors, a loyal employee, and has made a point of talking up the administration's commitment to reducing carbon dioxide. Employees who go to bat for their bosses are a business asset. Yet Bush has seriously compromised the credibility of Whitman by opening her decisions to reversal by the president. When trying to seek compliance from industry on environmental regulations, Whitman will always...
...wants to maintain its current lifestyle and consumption habits, saving the planet may have to wait. Cleaning up the environment will come at a cost to corporate profits and to consumers, and despite what he said on the campaign trail - indeed, despite what administration officials such as EPA chief Christie Whitman were saying as recently as 10 days ago - President Bush has now made clear that he believes the gain isn't worth the cost. Back to you, America...
...about 8,300 premature deaths, was proposed by Bill Clinton. Another set of Clinton's air-pollution regulations, stalled for years by lawsuits, finally won unanimous support last week from the U.S. Supreme Court. In a strong opinion from a surprising source, conservative Antonin Scalia, the court backed the EPA's authority to set tough new limits on the amount of ozone and fine particles (better known as soot) spewed out by trucks and power plants. These pollutants ravage the lungs and are implicated in asthma and cardiovascular disease. The high court rejected arguments by the trucking industry...
...dream, but whatever he decides to do to clean the air and fight climate change has a better chance of getting through a Republican Congress than anything Clinton and Gore proposed. Conservationists can find hope in this bit of history: the Clean Air Act was passed and the EPA was created during the Republican reign of Richard Nixon...