New Administration Blocks Final Guidances of Outgoing Administration.(George W. Bush blocks regulations put forth in final days of Clinton administration)(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, February, 2001 by HESS, GLENN

THE BUSH administration has withdrawn the final version of a guidance document approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the final day of the Clinton administration intended to clarify what constitutes a "federally permitted release" of air pollutants under the Superfund law.

Final rules on plants genetically engineered to produce their own pesticides and a regulation that would allow imports of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from certain US territories for disposal have also been withdrawn from publication in the Federal Register. In what has become a Washington tradition when the White House switches hands, President Bush blocked many of former President Clinton's final actions by preventing them from being printed in the Federal...

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