King coal: guess who's Bushwhacking the environment for votes? (Below The Beltway).(George W. Bush)

SINCE TAKING OFFICE, GEORGE W. Bush has aggressively rolled back environmental regulations and initiatives. What he hasn't achieved by changing the rules he has done by reducing the staff devoted to enforcing them. According to a study by AIR Daily, the number of air-quality inspectors fell by 12 percent this year, and the number of inspections fell by 34 percent from the administration's first year. Bush's animus toward environmental legislation is personal and ideological, but it is also integral to his 2004 re-election strategy.

As is well known, Bush and the Republicans ...

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