Pombo and Peterson's poison pill

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/05/07/muckraker/index_np.html


Appetite for destruction

Republican Reps. Richard Pombo and John Peterson have put a poison pill in this year's energy bill -- an amendment that would eliminate the public review process for projects on public land.
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When the energy bill sailed through the House of Representatives late last month, the media reported that it was same old grotesquely corpulent package that the GOP leadership had previously tried -- and failed -- to pass through Congress four times in the last four years. This is true. But what flew under the radar were a few new provisions sneaked in at the 11th hour by Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., chair of the House Resources Committee, which have made the bill even more environmentally threatening than previous versions, many Democrats and environmentalists say.

The environmental statute Pombo is targeting this time: the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, long considered a cornerstone of U.S. environmental law.

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when the bushgang destroys the environmental cornerstone hell will have arrived in the US.

When we allowed our government to be taken over in an illegal coup.

there was a man on Wash. Journal the other day talking about virus, illness, medicade/care, etc. and he repeated several times that there was more sickness in america, and it would continue to grow.

the conversation and phone calls went on as if

as if what he said wasn't momenteous, as if no one had really heard it.

and so the environmental cornerstone is smashed and sickness and death go even higher.

on TV there is an ad for a news show about two mothers of disabled children, as if the mothers were heros. and I wondered if this wasn't a new campaign to get everyone thinking disabled children were a usual thing.