No plunder left behind, nothing left un wrecked and un ruined...

[Hubert Flottz]

That goes for the corrupt, watered down, Bush era EPA...

Bush EPA hid data on coal-ash risks, study shows
By Ken Ward Jr.
Staff writer

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Bush administration kept secret for nearly five years data that showed increased cancer risks from drinking water polluted by coal-ash impoundments, according to a new report issued Thursday.


Under President Bush, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials never made public an October 2002 study that outlined increased risks of as high as 1 in 50 additional cancer cases.


EPA later published some of the data in an August 2007 study. But even then, the agency report left out some key information about additional dangers to aquatic ecosystems and wildlife from toxic metals leaching out of unlined or inadequately lined coal-ash dumps.


The Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice on Thursday issued a report that tries to explain in simple language the findings in both EPA documents, which examined more than 200 coal-ash landfills and surface impoundments. More...

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200905070785

Three of my good friends and two members of my family are fighting for their lives right now. Cancer is not a damned bit funny Mr. Bush.

[annabanana]

1. He used the EPA to protect polluters. We knew he would.

And he did. The extent of the damage is well known to the neighbors of the polluters, but the rest of us will only find out the hard way.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. There is nothing in this country the Bush gang didn't spoil...

Totally let all the chemical companies off the hook on the "Super fund" clean-ups all over the US. Before Bush intervened, the chemical companies paid their fair share. After Bush took over the Super fund cost was shifted totally to the taxpayers. Most of the clean-up ground to a halt and Bush used the EPA to make believe the toxins in those sites posed little or no threat to humanity. Like children pulling the covers over their heads to keep the monsters away.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Bush Proposing to Shift Burden of Toxic Cleanups to Taxpayers

Published on Sunday, February 24, 2002 in the New York Times

Bush Proposing to Shift Burden of Toxic Cleanups to Taxpayers

by Katharine Q. Seelye

WASHINGTON — Faced with dwindling reserves in the huge account that gave the Superfund waste cleanup program its name, the Bush administration has decided to designate fewer sites for restoration and to shift the bulk of the costs from industry to taxpayers.

The administration says it is dealing with much bigger and more complex sites, if fewer of them, and that deciding how to pay for the program is up to Congress.

For years Congress has failed to reach agreement on reauthorizing the tax on industry that used to be the source of money for the Superfund, which was founded in 1980 under the slogan "the polluter pays."

This is shifting the burden to taxpayers, and it is dramatically realigning the purpose of the program, which was to ensure that polluters pay. Taxpayers are paying more, and fewer sites are being cleaned up. MORE...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0224-01.htm

[Hubert Flottz]

4. White House won't tax corporations for Superfund cleanup

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration has told Congress it will not ask for taxes on businesses to pay for federal toxic waste cleanups, as the Clinton administration had unsuccessfully tried to do since 1995.

In its fiscal year 2003 budget request recently sent to Capitol Hill, the Bush administration said it has no intention of asking Congress to reauthorize corporate taxes used to finance toxic waste cleanups since the passage of the Superfund Act in 1980. The White House's budget request the previous fiscal year did not mention the issue.

A congressional Democrat criticized the White House's decision, saying it let corporate polluters "off the hook."

Cleanup funds from corporations have been dwindling ever since the laws authorizing the taxes that support the trust fund expired in 1995. The Republican-controlled Congress had rebuffed former President Clinton's annual efforts to renew the Superfund taxes. MORE...

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/02/24/bush.superfund/index.html

Everything the GOP touches turns to sh!t!