Talk about pressure. Less than a week after he was tapped by President Bush to head the Environmental Protection Agency, the administration’s faltering clean-air policy forced Acting EPA Administrator Steve Johnson into the spotlight. On March 9, the president’s Clear Skies legislation stalled in the Senate Environment and Public Works committee. Time for plan B. […]
Clear Skies
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Full of holes
Now that spring is breaking out, what’s not to love about “Clear Skies”? One thing, maybe: George W. Bush has slapped the term on his latest attempt to sell Americans on “market-based” environmental cleanup and the virtues of fossil fuels. Nothing new here for Bush; he let oil and markets rule the big skies […]
