GOP Pollster Warns Bush to Ease Up on Clean Water Act. (Snippet:)
| ...The Bush Administration's systematic assault on the Clean Water Act, one of the nation's most important environmental laws, has included weakening programs that maintain water quality, huge cuts in funding for water protection, and reduced enforcement of regulations.
One EPA draft proposal would weaken regulations and oversight of the program responsible for cleaning up the 45% of the nation's waters that are still too polluted for swimming, fishing, drinking water, and other uses. "The most significant threat" noted Mulhern "is the directive the administration issued in January, 2003, declaring that many wetlands and streams should have no Clean Water Act limits on pollution at all." In a parallel effort, the Interior Department has been rolling back protections to make it easier for coal companies to bury streams and valleys with waste, in the process of mountaintop removal strip mining. The Bush Administration's own studies show that this type of mining has already destroyed more than 1,200 miles of streams and 380,000 acres of Appalachian mountains and forests. |
Well, if Bush's own studies show the detrimental effect of his policies, and he's ignoring them, then what's the point?
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