I was listening to Bob Davis yesterday

on KSTP, when some knucklehead called up and claimed that George Bush had made America a dirtier place by loosening environmental restrictions.

Funny that that's the first I heard of it. Here's the second. Check this out:

Lawyers at E.P.A. Say It Will Drop Pollution Cases
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

Published: November 6, 2003

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — A change in enforcement policy will lead the Environmental Protection Agency to drop investigations into 50 power plants for past violations of the Clean Air Act, lawyers at the agency who were briefed on the decision this week said.

The lawyers said in interviews on Wednesday that the decision meant the cases would be judged under new, less stringent rules set to take effect next month, rather than the stricter rules in effect at the time the investigations began.

The lawyers said the new rules include exemptions that would make it almost impossible to sustain the investigations into the plants, which are scattered around the country and owned by 10 utilities.
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Funny how restrictions not yet in effect can do so much damage. That could be taken either way, they obviously have stopped enforcing the old rules, but when did that start?