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Business Group Forms To Oppose EPA

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
28 July 2000 - 8:45am

California's most powerful business interests including members from manufacturing and petroleum industrieshave formed a coalition to oppose EPA efforts to impose stricter water-pollution limits.

California's most powerful business interests including members from manufacturing and petroleum industrieshave formed a coalition this spring. The aim of the coalition -- called the Alliance For Water Quality -- is to oppose U.S. Environmental Protection Agency efforts to impose stricter water-pollution limits by launching a lobbying and public-relations blitz to persuade Gov. Gray Davis to stand up to federal environmental regulators, a newspaper reported.

Full Story: Business interests form group to lobby Davis over EPA
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 27, 2000
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