On Climate, EPA Punts


	On Climate, EPA Punts

Wisco

7-11-2008 10:44 PM

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So, rather than comply with the SCOTUS ruling, the Bush administration effectively shuts down enforcement of the Clean Air Act. And, in doing so, dismisses the EPA's own study.

Pigheaded, corrupt, and stupid to the very last day of his presidency. That'll be how history remembers George W. Bush

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