Reply #4: A full Senate airing of all these recent moves would be nice also [View All]

[xray s]

maybe Hillary can put this all on the table fro the world to see, something Bush was hoping to avoid...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0906-02.htm

Published on Saturday, September 6, 2003 by Knight-Ridder
Mission Accomplished
Bush Administration Fulfills Wish List for Corporate America

by Seth Borenstein

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration eased a series of important environmental regulations in a quiet flurry of late-summer activity, delivering almost every rule change on corporate America's wish list.

In the past few weeks, the administration diluted federal rules governing air pollution from old coal-fired power plants; emissions that cause global warming; ballast water on ships contaminated with foreign species of plants and animals; sales of land tainted with PCBs; drilling for oil and gas on federal land; and scientific studies that underpin federal regulations.

"They're trying to dismantle some of the original clean air and water legislation that (President) Nixon put through. They're going full bore." (Lester Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute)