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WASHINGTON,
D.C. – U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) issued today’s “Bush Administration’s
Misstatement of the Day” on environmental protection
President
Bush, during remarks to honor Environmental Youth Award Winners, said:
For
three decades now, the Environmental Protection Agency has helped to carry
out our national commitment to the wise care of the environment.
The agency has worked with many private citizens who understand that each
have a duty to be good stewards of the land and life around us. (President
Bush, 4/24/01)
The
New York Times, however, reported today:
A
change in enforcement policy will lead the Environmental Protection Agency
to drop investigations into 50 power plants for past violations of the
Clean Air Act, lawyers at the agency who were briefed on the decision this
week said. ...Congressional critics, environmental groups and officials
in some Northeast states described the change as a major victory for the
utility industry and a defeat for environmentalists, who had viewed the
cases as the best way to require the companies to install billions of dollars
of new pollution controls. (New York Times, 11/6/03)
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