January 8, 2004

I want Bush out of office

I got this from Sierra magazines January/February 2004 issue.

Apparently, Bush is changing environmental laws to suit his needs without any concern for the environment. To dispose of 90 million gallons of liquid nuclear waste it should be shipped to a deep-burial repository. Instead, the Bush administration wants to change its classification so that it can be left in concrete covered tanks ....which by the way are already leaking....and store them at old weapons facilities in Idaho, South Carolina, and Washington. State officals are warning that the waste could end up in nearby ground water and aquifers. In Idaho, a judge ruled that Bush's plan violated the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. So what does Bush do? Had the energy secretary Spencer Abraham ask congress to rewrite the law.

Rewriting laws isn't a new concept to Bush. Apparently, he's getting pretty good at it. To protect companies that dump mining waste into streams, he had the Clean Water Act rewritten to classify the waste as "fill." When a court blocked new oil drilling off the California coast , the commerce dept. proposed revising rules for the Coastal Zone Management Act that would weaken state's authority over off shore drilling.

I guess when you have the ability to change the rules you don't have to follow the ones you don't like.

Posted by Tonya at January 8, 2004 2:20 PM | TrackBack