All of the regulatory agencies under Bush look the same. They fail to perform their basic mission and focus more on accommodating business instead of individuals. Anyone who thinks McCain can/will change this is living in a fantasy world. He is too beholden to the far right to fight them on every issue and worrying about the environment is not going to be a priority for McCain.
From July 2006 through December 2007 there were 304 instances where the EPA found what would have been violations of the Clean Water Act before the court's ruling, according to a memo by the agency's enforcement chief.
Officials "chose not to pursue formal enforcement based on the uncertainty about EPA's jurisdiction," according to the memo, which was released Monday by two Democratic House committee chairmen.
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