Grumbles is grumbling again at the moment when the Great Lakes Legacy Act is about to be approved and improved by the US House of Representatives. Would you believe Benjamin Grumbles, Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency has written to Environment and Public Works Chair Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to ask her not to give the Legacy Act program more money? What the H-E – double toothpicks is he doing? Just another example of how the Bush Administration has been undermining the Great Lakes and his campaign promise (albeit verbal) to fix them.
The Great Lakes Legacy Act, that is to be voted on this afternoon, triples past authorization levels to speed up the clean-up of 31 Areas of Concern on the American side of the Great Lakes. Areas that are poisoning our drinking water, the fish we eat and well, us. The EPA apparently expects our region to continue to live with dirty water – water that is dirty, btw, because we worked hard supplying the products and services as the economic engine for this entire nation for the last century plus.
There is nothing polite to say to Grumbles and the EPA for this attack. Instead, lets focus on the new guy who will be taking office soon – either one has to be better than this President and his political appointees at the EPA.
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