Leavitt Defends Bush Environmental Record
Environment News Service, October, 2004 by J.R. Pegg
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — With the presidential election less than two weeks away, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Leavitt defended the Bush administration's environmental record as one that fairly balances competing economic and environmental interests without compromising environmental protection or public health.
That characterization is a far cry from the one put forth by critics of the administration, many of whom say President George W. Bush has the worst environmental record of any president in U.S. history.
Leavitt, speaking Friday to the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) at Carnegie Mellon University, said there has been an important shift in the debate over environmental protection since the...
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