Voluntary disasters. (Networks).(Texas environmental policies under Bush)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, June, 2002
CATCH THIS: INDUSTRY executives and top government officials secretly meet to draft regulatory legislation, are caught by watchdog groups, and then refuse to release documents from the meetings. Sound like President Bush's energy commission? You're right. But it's also the way he crafted some of Texas's environmental policies in the late 1990s--policies that have had disastrous results.
As documented by the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition (SEED), Texans for Public Justice, and The Texas Observer, Bush's pattern of inviting execs to craft regulatory ...
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