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Bush's Environmental Smokescreen

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
25 August 2003 - 8:00am

This editorial is sceptical of the Bush administration's "Healthy Forests" initiative and says the changes to the Clean Air Act are of "dubious value."

"[The Bush administration's] 'healthy forests' initiative should be viewed in the more sceptical light of other moves to allow new logging in roadless and wilderness areas, and to transfer management of some national forests to local interests...The proposed new rule in the Clean Air Act is of even more dubious value...The Natural Resources Defence Council which obtained the leaked draft says it will allow more air pollution from 17,000 industries across the country. That is a very dirty trick to play on the environment."

Full Story: Dirty tricks on clean air
Source: The Guardian Unlimited, August 24, 2003
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