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Typed in Environmentalists see some of their worst fears playing out as
President
Bush moves to cement a second-term agenda that includes getting more timber,
oil and gas from public lands and relying on the market rather than
regulation to curb pollution. Bush's top energy priority - opening an Alaska

wildlife refuge to oil drilling - is shaping up as an early test of GOP
gains in Congress.
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Bush's environmental priority is to rewrite the Clean Air Act to set annual
nationwide limits on three major air pollutants from power plants and to
allow marketplace trading of pollution rights rather than regulation to meet
those goals.

Maybe it's time we start to seperate preservationist from environmentalist.
I don't have a problem of exploiting resources, especially energy resources, on
public land as long as it can be done without long term environmental damage.
I'm old enough to remember the controversy over the Alaskan pipeline and the
doomsday predictions about North Slope drilling. None turned out to be correct.

The marketplace concept of pollution control is new, it's been in effect on
certain items since 1990, the last Clean Air act.

My statement still stands, Bush is no worse than Bill Clinton, maybe better if
your environmental focus happens to be on anything besides wilderness.

SYOTR
Larry C.