The Lame Duck's last gasp at deregulation was commented on in the WP:
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The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.
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Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.
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Once such rules take effect, they typically can be undone only through a laborious new regulatory proceeding, including lengthy periods of public comment, drafting and mandated reanalysis.
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The regulations being undone were based on solid scientific information. Some were supported by G.H.W.Bush.
Over the years we've supported the court battles to reduce power plant emissions, held signs written letters, leafletted, made phone calls, spoken with our officials and invested time to get where we are which isn't acceptable. Watching that work reversed so easily leaves me in tears. There's a place in hell for this man.
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