… because they may come out of your nose in the course of uproarious laughter. Here’s the headline on a new interview from the Austin American Statesman: “Bush rules improved the environment, says former EPA administrator”.
And the money quote from Richard Greene, a regional director in the Bush-era EPA who’s attempting to defend the agency’s environmental enforcement record:
[D]uring the course of the Bush administration, the rules and regulations governing the operations of American business and industry were tightened and improved more than they have ever been. The tendency by some in the media, to pick one or two out of thousands of regulations and to conclude the agency didn’t achieve its missions, is just bewildering to me. There were one or two things of controversy. Every one of those items you mentioned, the agency has a response to. The Bush administration even gets reversed in court because it overreached in regulatory rule-making initiatives, in federal appeals.
Yes, judges have overturned Bush environmental rules as overreaching … in their readiness to violate the Endangered Species Act.
