[PCA] NEWS: A Last Push To Deregulate

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004749.html

A Last Push To Deregulate
White House to Ease Many Rules
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 31, 2008; Page A01

The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, 
many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers 
and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of 
the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would 
ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, 
mines and farms.

Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial 
ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that 
contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a 
key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.

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