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"And I Watched It Happen"

Angry | "it's getting hard to breathe, it's getting so hard to believe, to believe in anything at all"


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Phillips: “What's the biggest enforcement challenge right now when it comes to air pollution?”

Buckheit: “The Bush Administration. An opportunity to reduce pollution just as we saw in Tampa is being foregone.”

Phillips: “Are you saying this administration just doesn't care about air pollution?”

Buckheit: “Yes. I'm saying this administration has decided to put the economic interests of the coal fired power plants ahead of the public interests in reducing air pollution.”

Phillips: “That's a pretty serious allegation.”

Buckheit: “Well, I was the head of the air enforcement division up until a couple weeks ago and I watched it happen.”

-- excerpt from a Dateline interview between Stone Phillips and Bruce Buckheit, former director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Enforcement Division

 



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  • #3 Comment from coffywoman 
    4/26/04 3:15 AM Permalink
    Great excerpt...
  • #2 Comment from solitudegld 
    4/22/04 6:25 PM Permalink
    Bush is against the Globa;l Warming Treaty and protecting wildlife as well.   Keep fighting Duane.
  • #1 Comment from musenla 
    4/22/04 4:51 PM Permalink
    Wow, did you say Dateline?  I guess they're feeling the pangs of the Bennifer breakup and have turned to relevant news.

    This is totally abhorrent but not shocking.  This administration's dismantling of any sound environmental regulations in favor of big corporation is so systematic I'm not surprised anymore.