All for states' rights... when the states are exercising their right to bend over for Big Business
New EPA regulations may compromise stricter state regulations:
New air pollution regulations issued by the Bush administration undermine an important tenet of national environmental laws: the rights of states to adopt stricter controls than the federal government, environmental lawyers and California officials say.
This part of the new regulations portends an ominous shift in federal policy that could threaten scores of unique environmental measures adopted by California in areas from air quality to pesticides to drinking water, they say.
[...] Part of that concern comes from the following language contained in the 600- plus pages of regulations: "For states that choose to adopt all the new . . . provisions, we expect that the (state approval process) will be expeditious. Of course, the review and approval process will be more complicated for states that choose to adopt a program that differs from our base programs."
Just some cheap irony following Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chairman Jim Inhofe's spiel on not letting the EPA limit states' rights. Entirely different branches of government, of course, so disagreements like this are just part of the delicate checks and balances keeping us all safe.
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