Administration Goes Light on Environmental Lawbreakers

September 22, 2004

These reports are not just " interesting tidbits " . They represent

millions of tons of poisons put into the lives and eventually the

bodies of everyone,.... which makes us sick, then off we go to the

doctor only to be given more poisons. Hmm, does that sound like a

stupid plan or what? It takes a very powerfull bulls**t PR machine to get

us to accept it. F.

Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:08:14 GMT

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Administration Goes Light on Environmental Lawbreakers

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September 22, 2004 | Back Issues

Administration Goes Light on Environmental Lawbreakers

With benign-sounding proposals like the " Healthy Forests Initiative "

and " Clear Skies Initiative, " the Bush administration has been accused

by environmentalists of rolling back environmental protections. Now,

new research has determined that under Bush, enforcement of

environmental laws has dropped off sharply as well.

The research was conducted by the Transactional Records Access

Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data gathering and research center at Syracuse

University. [1] Using Justice Department information gathered under

the Freedom of Information Act, TRAC looked at 20,000 criminal

defendants charged with violating environmental laws, covering the

years 1993 to 2004.

From the first Clinton term to the second Clinton term, environmental

prosecutions jumped 28 percent. But from the second Clinton term to

the current Bush years, prosecutions dropped 23 percent.

Likewise, the number of convictions declined under Bush, and the

number of defendants who actually went to prison dropped

significantly. During the Bush years the number of defendants who

served time dropped 28 percent from the previous administration.

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