White House pressured EPA to weaken toxin report.
By on Dec 12th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
White House pressured EPA to weaken toxin report.
According to an upcoming GAO report, the White House “pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to weaken requirements that companies annually disclose releases of toxic chemicals,” meaning that “industry will have to file 22,000 fewer reports each year, reducing an important public monitoring tool on industrial emissions.”
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Ooo Laaa Laaa. Tastier Fish…that glows in the dark.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:52 pmMission Accomplished – Free Mercury for all!!!
December 12th, 2007 at 8:53 pmNo wonder Bush doesn’t want to cover American children’s health insurance. They are all going to get cancer from the toxic industrial waste.
December 12th, 2007 at 8:56 pmThe WH is just thinking about saving paper. Or bytes.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:06 pmSo who is the world’s biggest terrorist? Who’s the world’s leading mass-murderer?
December 12th, 2007 at 9:17 pmAnother crime against humanity by the Neo-Con Industrial Militarists.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:17 pmOh you dirty liberals. Don’t you know how painful paperwork can be? I mean, ohmygod! Think of the paper cuts.
And look at all the paper we’re saving! Save the trees!
December 12th, 2007 at 9:20 pmI am thinking of the Simpson’s 3-eyed fish.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:57 pmEh, what’s a few hundred Love Canals sprouting up across the country?
December 12th, 2007 at 10:01 pmThe pigheaded Bushies worship the almightly dollar; profits trump everything – even the health of their own families.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:34 pmWe know they don’t care about the rest of us – but they don’t care about the children of the future, even their own descendants.
Do they think the profits from their interests in these corporations will protect them?
BushCo is to politics what McDonald’s is to food.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:42 pmI find McDonald’s to be very tasty. I gag on BushCo.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:46 pmWellll, of course they did. Dontcha love the smell of dioxin in the morning!
December 13th, 2007 at 12:27 amOsama Bin Laden is laughing out loud!!!!! Bush and Chenney are doing a great job for him. They have destroyed the USA!
December 13th, 2007 at 5:50 amIf Republicans had always run the country, we would all be dead from DDT.
December 13th, 2007 at 6:34 amStunning. Breathtaking. And utterly in-line with everything they’ve done up to this point.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:57 ambush/republican malfeasance against the American people is endless.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:22 am.
The Bush White House has always had the position that if the facts don’t fit the propaganda, they’ll just change them until they do.
And they wonder why we don’t believe anything that comes out of that criminal cesspool.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:58 amBusinesses will file 22,000 fewer reports each year.
Holy Sh*t, how many tens of thousands do they file now.
How many are redundant or meaningless.
Comment by jdc
It says the industry will file 22k less reports. Not each company in the industry. For the industry as a whole that doesn’t sound like that much.
What is the cost to businesses and tax payers dealing with worthless reporting.
How do you know it’s worthless? What the Bush administration is trying to do is loosen up regulations on industry polluters. That’s rarely a good thing.
December 13th, 2007 at 12:39 pmIs there a private watchdog group monitoring these deadly chemical emissions being that the White House isn’t doing it’s constitutional duty to protect the public from poisons? If not, some group needs to find out exactly what 22,000 reports will be missing from which companies and lobby those companies to volunterally release their pollution statistics to the public.
It’s time that the public has an online database watchdogging these and all polluters so that we can demand changes in technologies and be able to boycott those comany’s products that refuse to clean up.
How can people vote for these definitively Fascist Corporate Politicians who are continually running our country into the ground. How can you “values” voters just ignore the hundreds of thousands of people who are killed prematurely because of pollution and the lack of safety inspections. Wake Up People! It’s industry that will kill us long before any terrorists will. And sending our pollution over seas to pollute and kill the Chinese or the Mexicans isn’t a moral or ethical solution either.
Every pollution has a solution. It’s called spending a few more cents on the dollar for cleaner methods of production. God Save Us From Ourselves!
December 13th, 2007 at 11:11 pm