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Weakend Smog Control – Bush Intervenes Yet Again
By Mark Schauss | March 17, 2008
In another astonishing push of politics over fact and science, President Bush forced the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to weaken the smog standards for cities despite the known need to reduce smog drastically to reduce pollution induced health problems. What this administration is saying is that citizens of America, we are not interested in your health, just your money. It must be incredibly frustrating to work at the EPA in this anti-logic environment.
“Never before has a president personally intervened at the 11th hour, exercising political power at the expense of the law and science, to force EPA to accept weaker air quality standards than the agency chief’s expert scientific judgment had led him to adopt,” said John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private advocacy group. “It is unprecedented and an unlawful act of political interference.” The countdown to the end of this administration can’t come fast enough.
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