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President Bush in February announced a 90-day moratorium and review on many regulations. More recently, Republican congressmen introduced a bill to extend the moratorium.
Democratic congressmen who deal with environmental legislation say the moratorium is an attempt to gamer election year support from disillusioned businessmen, while the White House points to billions of dollars saved by the measures.
David W. Carr Jr., a lawyer with the non-profit Charlottesville-based Southern Environmental Law Center, also warns that political pressures could force the service to back down.
“I see a risk that anti-regulatory politics are going to make it very difficult for the National Park Service to carry out its legal mandate” of protecting the park, he says. It was in conjunction with Carris group that scientists at the University of Virginia first compiled data showing the effects of acid rain damage in the park.
(Editor’s note: Acid rain is only one form of pollution impacting Virginia’s environment. This is the first of a series of in-depth articles that will appear in ArCom Newspapers from time to time on problems facing the environment.) ;
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