Environmental Rollbacks: Special interests on the move

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From Defenders of Wildlife.

With the nation focused on our national emergency, special interests are quietly trying to undermine many of our environmental protections. Just last week, the Bureau of Land Management reversed stricter environmental standards on gold, copper and lead mining operations. For the first time, these standards would have given federal officials the power to block mines likely to cause "substantial irreparable harm" to water quality and other natural resources. As the New York Times said in an editorial: "It is difficult at a moment of crisis to devote much thought to things like mining rules or snowmobile bans. But if the president's top officials have time to undermine environmental regulations, the public needs to pay attention as well."

You'd think that with the increased likelihood of a terrorist contamination, coupled with the increasing cost of water, which is directly related to its availability, that our legislators would be concerned with anything that could further restrict our water supply.

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the white house also decided to let stand clinton's more restrictive limits on arsenic in the water supply.

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of course, it took Billy years to finally approve that arsenic limit........it was a huge priority for him........i think he got the approval in just in front of his brother-in-laws pardon.......LOL