Re: Attack on Env. Protection.

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

I think Gawain's report on the Appropriations bill for EPA is entirely
relevant. It will be much harder for "anti-environmentalists" in Congress
to weaken environmental laws directly than to use the Appropriations bills,
which are extremely difficult to veto - the President risks sending
federal employees home without paychecks.

If EPA can't afford to enforce the laws at Federal facilities, and if
the "DSMOA" money that the Defense Department provides to state regulators is
also cut (as proposed by the Senate Armed Services Committee), then it
won't matter how strong the laws remain.

Lenny