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Report Highlights Obama's Broken Environmental Promises. Critics say White House office operates as 'one-stop wrecking machine' for important environmental protections
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/29-0
Barack Obama has been just as zealous as George Bush in stripping away environmental, health and safety protection at the behest of industry, it turns out. Report shows Obama has been just as zealous as his predecessor at thwarting the EPA. (Photo: Kent Nishimura / POOL/EPA) Some environmental organizations were beginning to suspect this, after Obama over-ruled his scientific advisers and blocked stronger ozone standards. Now, a new report [pdf] from the Center for Progressive Reform has dug up some key data revealing that the White House in the age of Obama has been just as receptive to the pleadings of industry lobbyists as it was in the Bush era. And it goes far beyond ozone.
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