Bush Administration EPA under fire

[mareserinitatis]

From the New York Times:

Bush administration standards for pollutants like soot are “contrary to law and unsupported by adequately reasoned decisionmaking,” a federal appeals court said Tuesday

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[soilyeti]

With all the high profile disasters of the last 8 years the environmental impacts of the Bush administration tend to get less airplay - but they are significant. I still remember very early on, long before 9/11, being furious when the "safe" arsenic levels for drinking water were changed. It just went downhill from there. From global warming to endangered species to oversight we've gone a long way down a very, very bad road.

[mareserinitatis]

Just at a time when we needed an administration to be paying attention, we got Bush.

*facepalm*

I was pregnant when the regulation of mercury came up. Despite the fact that both environmental groups and medical groups (like the AMA and March of Dimes) protested the roll back, it went through anyway.

[soilyeti]

Par for the course. Its been a full assault on regulation in every single sector for 8 years. I'm just upset there wasn't nearly enough pushback from the dems.

[mareserinitatis]

I think there's been so much hand-waving going on about 9-11, Afghanistan, and Iraq, that no one was paying attention to everything else. :-(