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On issue after issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ignored its own science advisers and ruled in favour of polluters.
Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice, Clean Energy, Conservation
Director, Media Relations
shananel@americanprogress.org
Why is it that, in the Bush administration, the desires of well-heeled polluters always trump the analyses of government scientists? The answer is that the top political appointees – and the president himself – personally weigh in on the side of industry.
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