Environmental Protection Agency`s Report Rejected By The Bush Administration
By: Tommy Elder, Jr.
When the Environmental Protection Agency recommended ways to the Bush Administration of reducing greenhouse gases- the government turned them down. Stephen Power and Ian Talley of the Wall Street Journal write that the Bush Administration rejected recommendations for the reduction of greenhouse gases as- `untested legal theories and would subject the country to crippling costs.`
Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency battles the White House over the application of the Clean Air Act in cleaning up greenhouse gases. Both Republican presumed Presidential Nominee John McCain and his presumptive Democratic rival Barack Obama noted that they back the proposals to cap greenhouse gas emissions.
Susan Dudley, of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, rejected the EPA`s analysis. She contended that the document relied on- `untested legal theories` and `cannot be considered administration policy or representative of the views of the administration.`
In a letter to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency i.e. Mr. Stephen Johnson- Ms. Dudley said- `There is strong disagreement with many of the legal, analytical, economic, science and policy interpretations in the draft.`
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