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Posted Fri Nov 7 2008: from McClatchy Newspapers: Bush officials moving fast to cut environmental protections http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1226082826 In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia. The administration is widely expected to try to get some of the rules into final form by the week before Thanksgiving because, in some cases, there's a 60-day delay before new regulations take effect. And once the rules are in place, undoing them generally would be a more time-consuming job for the next Congress and administration. [Read more stories about: governmental corruption, governmental idiocy] New!: Your Quips: Yeti says: "Who needs mountains? Or valleys, for that matter?" Got a PaniQuip? Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit): First name: The text shown in the Web image to the right: We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

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