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...Bush "the worst President for the environment since the first Earth Day in 1970." Eric Schaeffer, who recently quit as chief of civil enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency because he believes the White House is undermining the agency's role as watchdog, describes the problem this way: "The EPA is in the backseat, or maybe even riding the bumper, and the energy industry is having a field...
...rebut its critics, the Administration is emphasizing its policies to clean the air and slow global warming. Bush plans to spend Earth Day in the Adirondacks, trumpeting policies that don't fit the environmentalists' caricature of him--such as EPA's decision to make General Electric pay almost $500 million to clean up the Hudson River. His defenders argue that environmentalists tend to be a misanthropic lot. "For many people, you can never do enough," EPA boss Christie Whitman told TIME. Indeed, the League of Conservation Voters, which in February gave Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney a grade...
...farmland conservation--Bush's novel, market-driven approaches may prove efficient and effective in ways that some environmentalists seem unable to see. And there has been more continuity with the previous White House than either the Clinton-bashing Bush team or the Bush-hating environmentalists like to admit. EPA's Whitman, for instance, upheld the standard for arsenic in drinking water that the Clinton Administration adopted in its last hours in office (although she did so only after a public outcry). With less fanfare, she also let stand a little-known but sweeping Clinton-era regulation making diesel fuel considerably...
...studies usually surface only when they are submitted to the EPA--or when they are leaked to the press. A year and a half ago, newspapers in California reported that researchers there were paying healthy volunteers $1,000 to complete a six-month regimen of perchlorate, a rocket-fuel component that disrupts thyroid function and may cause retardation in babies. Lockheed Martin funded the study after some 800 lawsuits charged that the company leaked perchlorate into the water supply and made people sick...
...what ever came of Dow's experiments on chlorpyrifos, the killer ingredient used in Raid and hundreds of other bug sprays and lawn-care products? The EPA ended up banning household use of the insecticide, a nerve-gas derivative found to cause brain damage in fetal rats and weakness and vomiting in children. --By Julie Rawe