Posted on 07/24/2002 9:29:40 AM PDT by purplegirl
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle quietly slipped into a spending bill language exempting his home state of South Dakota from environmental regulations and lawsuits, in order to allow logging in an effort to prevent forest fires.
The move discovered yesterday by fellow lawmakers angered Western legislators whose states were forced to obey those same rules as they battled catastrophic wildfires.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Two more questions: do you know if the state E.P.A. has any jurisdiction here? and...do you know what exactly the "Daschle covert exemption" includes (or more properly I should say "excludes regulation on")?
In it, I posted this:
I don't think this is about the forests. I think this is about the Homestake Mine. I don't recall exactly right now, but a few months ago there were some stories about some long-standing mines in the state that were finally going to close down, and they were looking for ways to convert to other uses, like laboratory work. The problem was long-term environmental impacts and remediations required by the mines in order to change. Toxic Superfund kind of stuff. Daschle was on top of it, but other scandals were preventing him from pressing it.I think this is "opportunity knocks."
-PJ
Just a wild thought. Daschle is so dysfunctional, that I sincerely hope he gets himself un-elected.
Hey we did it in WA state to Tom Foley, you can do this South Dakota and the rest of the nation will thank you!
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