http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/05/07/muckraker/index_np.htmlAppetite for destruction
Republican Reps. Richard Pombo and John Peterson have put a poison pill in this year's energy bill -- an amendment that would eliminate the public review process for projects on public land.
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When the energy bill sailed through the House of Representatives late last month, the media reported that it was same old grotesquely corpulent package that the GOP leadership had previously tried -- and failed -- to pass through Congress four times in the last four years. This is true. But what flew under the radar were a few new provisions sneaked in at the 11th hour by Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., chair of the House Resources Committee, which have made the bill even more environmentally threatening than previous versions, many Democrats and environmentalists say.
The environmental statute Pombo is targeting this time: the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, long considered a cornerstone of U.S. environmental law.
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when the bushgang destroys the environmental cornerstone hell will have arrived in the US.