Pollution Enforcement Dropping Substantially under Bush, New Study Finds

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Enforcement of environmental laws by the EPA has declined dramatically under the Bush Administration, according to the new report "Paying Less to Pollute." The study was released Wednesday by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), a non-partisan watchdog group.

"Over the past five years, environmental violators have been significantly less likely to face court action, be subject to criminal investigation, or pay civil or criminal penalties," the report found.

BuzzFlash participated in a conference call Wednesday morning with EIP founder Eric Schaeffer, who was the director of the EPA’s Office of Regulatory Enforcement until his 2002 resignation in protest of the Bush Administration’s efforts to weaken enforcement of environmental laws.

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/247

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1. They actually needed to do a "study" to reach this conclusion?

Ask any DU'er around here, they could have told these people as much. Years ago.

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2. kick

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[demobabe]

3. kick

:)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. What did they expect?

What he did Texas was a test model for the rest of the country.