Religions > Atheism > Bush, Christine Todd Whitman, Republicans, are BAD PEOPLE - Bush had Whitman distort mercury analysis
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08 Mar 2005 08:07:30 PM |
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Bush, Christine Todd Whitman, Republicans, are BAD PEOPLE - Bush had Whitman distort mercury analysis |
Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the EPA under Bush, has been
making the talk show rounds, hawking her book "It's My Party, Too".
Whitman is trying to pass herself off as a moderate Republican.
On the one hand, she's trying to distance herself from the extreme
right wing that controls the Republican Party, and on the other hand,
she is still defending Bush's record on the environment. "The air is
cleaner than it was 4 years ago," is superlative spin - It's only
"cleaner" because the Bush administration has eliminated what we test
for.
Bush and Whitman should be serving time in prison for this. These are
bad people.
March 8, 2005
GAO: EPA slanted mercury analysis to favor Bush plan
By Shankar Vedantam
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) distorted the
analysis of its controversial proposal to regulate mercury pollution
from power plants, making it appear that the Bush administration's
market-based approach was superior to a competing plan supported by
environmentalists, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office
said yesterday.
Rebuking the agency for a lack of "transparency," the report said the
EPA had failed to document the toxic impact of mercury on brain
development, learning disabilities and neurological disorders. The GAO
urged that these problems be rectified before the EPA takes final
action on the rule.
The analysis comes on the heels of a critical report by EPA's inspector
general that suggested agency scientists had been pressured to back the
approach preferred by industry.
"The administration is showing a blatant disregard for the health of
children, the health of women of childbearing age, but they are also
showing a blatant disregard for the law," said Sen. Patrick Leahy,
D-Vt., who had asked GAO to conduct the analysis. "To not change would
be the height of arrogant disregard."
EPA spokeswoman Cynthia Bergman said the agency was on track to issue
the mercury rule by March 15. She said the final rule would provide the
comparisons between competing options that the GAO said were missing.
"GAO has characterized the process as incomplete before the process has
even finished," she said.
Cap and trade
The administration has publicly endorsed a cap-and-trade approach that
would allow trading in pollution credits among power plants, rather
than imposing limits on every plant. Environmental groups are so
disenchanted with the trading proposal that they have stopped fighting
it; they want the EPA to issue the rule so they can fight it in court.
At issue is a proposal the EPA issued in January 2004 to reduce the 48
tons of mercury emitted annually by U.S. power plants. The proposal
offered two options, but the administration made clear it preferred the
trading system, which would achieve a 29 percent reduction in mercury
emissions by 2010 and a 70 percent reduction by 2018. This plan allows
companies to trade pollution credits, creating financial incentives for
companies to reduce pollution in the dirtiest plants.
The alternative was what the GAO called the "technology-based"
approach: to cap pollution at every plant.
Scales tipped
The administration said the cap-and-trade plan would reduce pollution
more, in part, because it would invite less litigation and blend nicely
with another cap-and-trade proposal to control sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxides, called the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR).
But the GAO report said the EPA had tipped the scales to favor the
market-based plan. For example, the EPA found that capping pollution at
every plant would save $13 billion: the difference between the
estimated savings in health costs and the pollution control costs.
The EPA said the cap-and-trade approach provided a much larger benefit
of $55 billion to $68 billion, but the GAO said yesterday that this
analysis included the benefits from the implementation of CAIR.
Also
Water utilities would have to conduct stricter testing for lead in
drinking water and provide clearer warnings to the public under changes
proposed yesterday by the EPA.
If adopted, the changes to the nation's Lead and Copper Rule would be
the first to strengthen health protections since the rule was
implemented in 1991 and would affect communities served by all 161,000
water systems in the country, EPA officials said.
Under the proposal, utilities would be required to give homeowners the
results of water tests conducted at their homes and to notify state and
federal regulators before making changes in water treatment.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002200219_epa08.html
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| Title: Re: Bush, Christine Todd Whitman, Republicans, are BAD PEOPLE - Bush had Whitman distort mercury analysis |
08 Mar 2005 11:32:33 PM |
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Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the Bush EPA (Environmental
Pacification Administration) now is upset that the Republican party
has been taken over by the far right wing wackos. What's the matter,
Christine? Don't you like having to pray before clubbing baby harp
seals? Is defiling ANWAR not as satisfying when you know that you
might not be able to have an abortion next year? Does allowing
coal-buring energy barrons to keep turning our kids into autistic
retards leave you cold when you know you are being marginalized by
idiot fundamentalists behind your back? Aww. I feel so sorry for you.
Well, your party wanted the remnants of the Confederacy, you got them,
and now you can bloody well keep them. But watching the Republicans
turn on each other does give me a warm feeling inside, and seeing all
you go-along-to-get-along Republicans get buggered is a really good
thing. One thing scares me, though, and I know this is what may well
happen. So, let me make a prediction, and I do not make predictions
lightly. Remember my last one, "Rumsfeld will never answer direct
questions from our Iraq troops again." I am right so far. Who wants to
put money on it? Here is my next prediction. Are you ready? Here it
comes. In four years, if the Bushies do not manage to set up a
totalitarian autocracy, we will see a Republican leadership that looks
much more liberal. You can see all the rats jumping ship. "Oh, no,
we're not like those BAD Republicans! We quit in January of '05!
Listen. We don't have a twang when we talk. Please give us a job,
Arnold."
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Our greatest Americans were not Christian! Our flag has never flown a
crucifix!
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -Benjamin
Franklin
"We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of
things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication."
-Thomas Jefferson
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no
religion in it." -John Adams
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for
every noble enterprise." -James Madison
"That Jesus Christ was not God is evidence from his own words." -Ethan
Allen
"Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men,
women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody
persecutions, and tortures unto death and religious wars, that since
that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but
from this impious thing called revealed religion, and this monstrous
belief that God has spoken to man?..." Thomas Paine
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on
the Christian religion" -Passed unanimously, US Senate, 1797
"Religion is bunk" -Thomas Alva Edison
EVIGILARE PECUA!
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