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...chief indicated Sunday that after gauging the opposition to Alaskan oil drilling, her boss was going green and beating a strategic retreat. "Look, nobody's deaf, dumb and blind over there, and everybody knows the environment is important, and we saw how things have been portrayed," EPA chief Christie Whitman said on ABC Sunday. Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge "has to go through the Congress in order to happen, and it's very difficult...
...been here before: When it's Christie Whitman holding the bugle, you never know which way the troops are really going. To wit, Ari Fleischer on Monday...
...strict regulations on lead contamination, left in place a Clinton rule expanding wetlands protection and backed a treaty banning a dozen harmful chemicals found mostly in poorer countries (but not in the U.S., which made signing it easier for Bush). Rove huddled with Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman before she faced the press, and he told reporters how misunderstood the President is on this issue...
...facing the faint but recognizable beginnings of an environmental groundswell, the White House appears to be ready to rehabilitate the President's eco-image. Accompanied by Colin Powell and EPA head Christie Whitman, the President stepped into the Rose Garden Thursday and announced he would sign a treaty phasing out the worldwide use of "persistent organic pollutants," or POPs...
...declared that CO2 should not be regulated as a pollutant, and followed that up by abandoning the Kyoto global environmental accord, on the grounds that it lets developing nations off the hook. Bush substituted nothing for a framework that, however imperfect, took years to construct. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman has no legs left to be cut out from under her. Then he shelved a Clinton regulation that tightened standards for arsenic in drinking water, arguing that more research is needed. While some people might be fuzzy about greenhouse gases, everyone gets the danger from arsenic--it's Murder...