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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (10986)	3/30/2007 2:12:48 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

<<< Julie A. MacDonald ... appointed by Bush to be the deputy assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks at the Interior Department. Ms. MacDonald, whose job is to oversee policy decisions on endangered species and other wildlife, sent internal agency documents to industry lobbyists (e.g. she twice sent "internal Environmental Protection Agency documents — one involving water quality management — to individuals whose e-mail addresses ended in 'chevrontexaco.com,") and generally ran roughshod over agency scientists. Here's how she works: MacDonald just made stuff up. If scientists recommended a certain action, MacDonald would alter the recommendation or simply ignore it if it threatened industry or landowners in any way. >>> tpmmuckraker.com Tom