[Dane]

Already posted, but Bush was in a lose/lose situation here especially after 9/11. I could see Terry McAuliffe come out with a commercial with a middle eastern man pouring something out of a bag labled arsenic into a resovioir and the tag line would be, "See this man dumping arsenic into your water supply, under George Bush what this man is doing perfectly legal."

[DallasMike]

Earlier this year, both the Democratic-led Senate

Funny, we used to have a Republican-dominated Senate, now we have a Democratic-led Senate.

[concerned about politics]

The new standard must be met by 2006, she said.

Well, guess America will just have to re-elect Bush to do that then , eh

[lelio]

"...and we are reassured by all of the data that significant reductions are necessary," Whitman said in a statement.
That's a nice way to say "we tried to stop the lowering from 50 to 10ppb but everyone complained so we stopped."
To be fair it did seem like the Clinton administration just picked 10ppb out of their booties but for Whitman to turn this around and say that they were investigating it to make sure is a little insincere.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

No other developed nation allows 50 ppb of arsenic in its drinking water.

Gee, don't know why I don't believe this comment from Reuters, or the junk scientists pushing for this change. Small towns with water rates tripling to appease the environazis? When the nation's been turned upside down economically and very other way by the 9-11 atttacks? What if these towns just said "NO"?

[jungleboy]

Cost of water, going up.