Select Committee Report: Last 100 Days Could Rival First 100 for Bush Administration and Environmental Deregulation

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Select Committee Report: Last 100 Days Could Rival First 100 for Bush Administration and Environmental Deregulation

From Global Warming to Nuclear Safety, Many Rules Could be Changed in Final Days

WASHINGTON (October 31, 2008) – On the scariest day of the year, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming is releasing a report detailing the frightening possible major regulatory rule changes the Bush administration could make in its final days in energy and environment issues. From global warming to water quality to endangered species to nuclear safety, the report highlights the major issues the public and the media should look out for in the closing days of an administration with a sharp deregulatory bent.

“If you thought the first 100 days of the Bush administration were bad, just wait and see what the last 100 could bring,” said Select Committee Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.). Chairman Markey has already sent a letter to the Bush administration voicing his concern over possible changes to the Endangered Species Act. “We already know this administration has a deep, unwavering ideology of deregulation that has negatively affected our environment and our economy. And with scant time left, there’s no reason to think they’ll stop deregulating now.”

In 2001, the Bush administration presaged years of deregulatory, anti-environmental action. In that year, the administration refused to reduce the arsenic levels in drinking water, opened wilderness areas to new roads, and rejected the Kyoto Protocol after promising to cut emissions.

The report is entitled “Past is Prologue: For Energy and the Environment, the Bush Administration’s Last 100 Days Could Rival the First 100” and is available HERE.

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