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Bush to Eliminate the Environment
All of the nation's species are under review, the president says
Newsweek Web Exclusive MSNBC Tuesday, May 27, 2003
May 27 - One week after Christine Todd Whitman departed her post at the Environmental Protection Agency, President George W. Bush announced ambitious new plans to phase out the environment altogether by 2004. ''In addition to cutting taxes, it is the goal of this administration to cut our wasteful, bloated environment,'' Bush said in a speech before the Association of Indiscriminate Applauders in Washington.
While plans TO eliminate the environment entirely are still being formulated, the general strategy of the White House is to phase out the environment gradually ''so that hardly anyone will notice it's gone,'' an aide said today.
Apparently, the plan to eliminate the environment may have prompted Ms. Whitman's decision to leave the EPA . . . Â [...] This is only an excerpt
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