The team had been on the job for years and was within weeks of producing what could have been its final report.
article (Emphasis mine)
I don't need to comment on that, do I? WTF?
Misleader - October 15
The Bush administration has gone to great lengths, even so far as giving false information to Congress, to gut a clean air regulation opposed by electric utilities, an industry that funneled $4.8 million into Bush's 2000 campaign.
Documents and discussions with former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials reveal that Bush appointees made untrue statements to two Senate committees when asked if a weakened New Source Review (NSR) rule was expected to jeopardize lawsuits against electric utilities accused of modifying coal-fired plants in violation of NSR. Contrary to what senators were told, EPA staffers had concluded that the new rule would undercut enforcement cases that had the potential to reduce air pollution from U.S. electric utilities by 50 percent annually.
The states and companies facing these enforcement actions include: Alabama: Southern Co. (also has TVA plants); Florida: Tampa Electric Co. (Tampa); Georgia: Southern Co. (Atlanta); Indiana: Vectren/Southern Indiana (Evansville); Illinois: Dynegy (Houston) and Illinois Power (Decatur); Kentucky: TVA; New Jersey: PSEG (Newark); North Carolina: Duke Energy Corp. (Charlotte); Ohio: American Electric Power (Columbus), Cinergy (Cincinnati) and First Energy (Akron); South Carolina: Duke Power; Tennessee: TVA (Knoxville); Virginia: Dominion Virginia Power (Richmond); West Virginia: American Electric Power; and Wisconsin: Wisconsin Electric (Milwaukee).
(Emphasis mine)
Evironmental Network News - November 6
The Bush administration has decided not to sue dozens of coal-burning utilities, oil refiners, and other industries for past dirty air violations now that it has eased pollution rules for plants undergoing major expansions, an Environmental Protection Agency official said Wednesday.
Environmentalists said the move confirmed their suspicions that a business-friendly Bush administration is willing to relax pollution rules, then refuse to attend to past violations.
(Emphasis mine)
They flat out lied. ("Made untrue statements". The "L" word is hard for journalists - even anti-Bush ones - to say for some reason.) Are you surprised?
Hey, you don't need to breathe so deeply anyway. And you sure as hell don't need to worry about some fish in a river or where that water goes and how it gets used and whether it might somehow some day have any effect on you.
Impeach. This maniac has got to go.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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