Panel Approves Leavitt's Nomination for EPA (washingtonpost.com): "The Environmental Integrity Project yesterday disclosed a May 2001 memo from then-EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to Vice President Cheney, warning against undertaking the rule change. 'We will pay a terrible political price if we undercut or walk away from the enforcement cases,' Whitman wrote. 'It will be hard to refute the charge that we are deciding not to enforce the Clean Air Act.'"
:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2003 11:35:00 PM [+] ::
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