Reply #18: Thanks to shrub.. [View All]

[rainbow4321]

he had a "grandfather clause" put in all of the air laws that he signed when he was gov down here. Basically, his factory owner friends/pioneer$ didn't have to comply with any of the "new laws".
At one point, Dallas came "thisclose" to losing it's federal highway funding because the EPA was so pissed about our filthy air down here. Below is a link to how he destroyed our air, etc...

This is just one of the tidbits IGNORED by the media when he first was running in the 2000...one of many things never reported about his TX regime:


http://www.txpeer.org/Bush/Quiet_Little_War.html

During his campaign for governor, George W. Bush advocated a philosophy of letting "Texans Run Texas". With respect to the environment, this policy has more closely resembled "Let Texas Industry Run Texas".
In a three-part series, PEER will examine how Gov. Bush's appointees at the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) undermined new federal public health standards and state pollution inspections, rolled back regulations, and attempted to manipulate pollution data to help the industries they were charged with regulating. Taken individually, each of these decisions is a matter of questionable policy; examined together, they suggest an ongoing strategy to strip environmental protections from a state with some of the weakest standards in the country. PEER will also document the industries that benefited from these actions and their financial support for Gov. Bush's political campaigns.