Re: E-M:/ Bush Administration frenetically undoing environmental regulations

["Anna Kirkwood Graham" <grahama9@msu.edu>]

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Enviro-Mich message from "Anna Kirkwood Graham" <grahama9@msu.edu>
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You know, in the wake of the current economic crisis, caused by reckless and 
unintelligent deregulation, and all of the other scandals (food and drug 
safety, occupational accidents, etc.) caused by reckless and unintelligent 
deregulation, you would think even this reckless and unintelligent 
administration and president would have the good sense to back off by now.  
When will he go away?
And he may still be followed by people with the same attitude toward 
regulation and the environment, in the persons of John McCain and Sarah 
("Bush-in-drag-only-even-whackier") Palin.
All I can say is, Go Obama.
Anna 

Cyndi Roper writes: 

> *A Last Push To Deregulate*
> White House to Ease Many Rules
> By R. Jeffrey Smith
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Friday, October 31, 2008; A01 
>
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR20081030 
> 04749_pf.html 
>
>
> ...One rule, being pursued over some opposition within the Environmental 
> Protection Agency 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Environmental+Protec 
> tion+Agency?tid=informline>, would allow current emissions at a power 
> plant to match the highest levels produced by that plant, overturning a 
> rule that more strictly limits such emission increases. According to the 
> EPA's estimate, it would allow millions of tons of additional carbon 
> dioxide into the atmosphere annually, worsening global warming. 
>
> A related regulation would ease limits on emissions from coal-fired power 
> plants near national parks. 
>
> A third rule would allow increased emissions from oil refineries, chemical 
> factories and other industrial plants with complex manufacturing 
> operations. 
>
> These rules "will force Americans to choke on dirtier air for years to 
> come, unless Congress or the new administration reverses these 
> eleventh-hour abuses," said lawyer John Walke of the Natural Resources 
> Defense Council 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Natural+Resources+Defense 
> +Council?tid=informline>. ... 
>
>  
>
> /Cyndi Roper
> Michigan Director
> Clean Water Action
> 1200 Michigan Ave., Suite A
> East Lansing, MI 48823
> Office:  517.203.0754
> Cell: 517.490.1394/ 



Anna Kirkwood Graham, J.D., Ph.D.
"There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave and severe; it 
is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to our share."
-- Goethe 



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