Bush's first term offers mixed reviews.(News)

Waste News, October, 2004 by Geiselman, Bruce

Byline: Bruce Geiselman Only weeks before the November presidential election, environmentalists and federal environmental enforcers are painting two different pictures of the Bush administration's performance in pursing polluters and cleaning up the environment. Both sides have presented statistics bolstering their arguments - leaving the public to decide whether the number of civil lawsuits filed against polluters or the number of dollars spent by polluters to take corrective action is the better measuring tool.

A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official has accused the Bush administration of slashing actions against polluters like utilities and oil companies. That came only days after the Justice Department said it achieved a...

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