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...block this move, EPA staffers deleted the global warming section from its report...
...study by two Harvard researchers quietly published last January in a small research journal has set off a political storm that has led to debate on the senate floor and internal wrangling at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
According to internal EPA documents leaked to the national media, the Bush administration tried to include references to the study in the agency’s report on the state of the environment...
Democrats will also dissect Leavitt's own environmental record during his 10 years as Governor. Data in an unreleased EPA report show that under Leavitt, Utah had a high proportion of polluters emitting at unacceptable levels. Between 1999 and 2001, 30% of Utah facilities with federal licenses to release a specified amount of waste into waterways exceeded those limits. The national average was about 25% in 2001. Others fared even worse in the February report, but it's a problem for Leavitt, his critics say, since he hopes to move power away from the EPA and toward states...
Leavitt's supporters claim that the report data are unreliable. Because Utah has only 33 of what the EPA calls "major" polluters (vs. 382 for Pennsylvania), improvement in a small number of facilities since 2001 has sharply shifted percentages. "We've got the problem in our cross hairs," says Walter Baker of the Utah division of water quality...