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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (132664)3/21/2001 2:13:30 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
"Thankfully Bush ignored the special interests in favor of the national interest and aborted both regulatory schemes.

I think you forgot to add the " In my opinion". Many would interpret Bush's actions as paying favor to the special interest groups and ignoring the national interest. Houston became the most polluted city in the US under Bush.

Here is an write up on Arsenic levels......I guess he is acting in the national interest to decrease the population! LOL:

from the bushwatch website
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DAY 60, Tuesday..." The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will revoke a Clinton administration rule that would have sharply reduced the acceptable level of arsenic in drinking water.... While environmentalists said the tough new arsenic standard is essential to protecting millions of Americans from cancer and other health threats, EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman insisted there is "no consensus on a particular safe level" in ordering the withdrawal of the standard.... The proposed rule, issued Jan. 22, would have reduced the acceptable level of arsenic in water from 50 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion. Congress mandated a toughening of the standard, and the measure promulgated by the Clinton administration would have brought the United States into compliance with a standard already adopted by the World Health Organization and the European Union. However, the rule was strongly opposed by officials of some western states, mining and chemical companies and wood processors that would have been directly affected by the rule and that would have incurred the greatest costs. The EPA action follows closely on Bush's announcement last week that he was jettisoning a campaign pledge to seek reductions in the carbon dioxide emissions of the nation's power plants." --WP, 3/20/01
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