Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 26, 2003
January 25, 2003
January 27, 2003
Transcript:
Aide: Sir? The EPA is on line two! George W. Bush: We still have an EPA? Okay. Let's move on to our contributors from the extraction industries - is everyone happy there? Aide: Very, sir! With all the national security distractions, we've been able to quietly gut one environmental protection regulation after another... For instance, we've produced new rules to speed up logging in national forets, rolled back protections of 58 million acres from roads and developments, eased pollution controls for power plants and factories, rejected new fuel-efficiency standards, sped up permit-granting for power companies... Lifted a ban on snowmobiles in parks, proposed 51,000 new natural gas wells, removed limits on coal producers for dumping mountaintop fill in streams, reduced EPA fines of polluters by 64%, opened up Padre Island to drilling, halted funding for several superfund sites, replaced scientists who don't support our views, rejected the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, and much, much more! Bush: Whoa... That's quite a list! Aide: Yes, sir. Bush: Does Christine Whitman still work for us? Aide: I can check.
