White House Overruled EPA Administrator on Ozone Regulation
By admin - Posted on May 21st, 2008
Tagged: Abuse of power
• Air pollution
• Environment
• EPA
• George W Bush
• Oversight Committee
• Ozone
• Pollution
• Scandal
• White House
May 20, 2008 -- A House Judiciary Committee investigation has uncovered details of White House involvement in EPA’s regulation of ozone on the eve of a court imposed deadline, forcing EPA staff to scrap a standard supported by its independent panel and to perform “emergency rewrites” to the regulation.
Documents obtained by the Committee show that EPA staff raised serious concerns about the merits and legality of the decision.
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Source: Oversight Committee
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