[CPEO-BIF] Bush Signs Brownfields Law

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Inquirer (Philadelphia)
Friday, January 11, 2002 

Bush Visits Conshohocken, Signs Brownfields Bill


By Sonya Ross
ASSOCIATED PRESS 

In a visit to Conshohocken, President Bush signed legislation this
morning to clean up thousands of polluted industrial sites, a measure he
lauded as evidence of what happens "when people decide to cooperate, not
bicker" in Congress. 

Bush traveled to the Montgomery County suburb to sign the bill, a
five-year plan to provide up to $250 million a year to states, local
governments and Indian tribes to clean up the sites, known as
brownfields. 

"We are returning common sense to our cleanup program," Bush said. "We
will protect innocent small-business owners and employees from unfair
lawsuits and focus our efforts instead on actually cleaning up
contaminated sites. 

"Environmental protection and economic growth can go on together," he
said. 

The president cited the brownfields bill as an example of
bipartisanship, in which elected officials say, "I'm proud of my
political party. But I'm more proud of my country. And I want ... to do
what's right for America first, not my political party."

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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