[PCA] NEWS: A Last Push To Deregulate
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Nov 6 09:44:32 CST 2008
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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