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...A lonely group of governors from tech-savvy states like Colorado (Bill Owens) ,Virginia (Jim Gilmore), Massachusetts (Jane Swift) and California (with noted tax killer Gray Davis at the helm) oppose the cartel.They know if states are granted new remote collection powers, e-commerce operations will just move their servers to the Bahamas...
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...I faxed a note to every congressman, Republican and Democrat, asking for examples of races they believed were won or lost on environmental issues...
...The EPA's toxic formula for dealing with negligible environmental risks is depressingly familiar: Junk science plus bureaucratic empire-building plus anti-corporate statism equals a massive misallocation of resources.The late, great science and economics journalistWarren Brookes put it best a decade ago: "The problem is not that we are making too great an effort to make the environment cleaner or our lives safer...The trouble is that we are making the wrong efforts, with results all too oSen the opposite of what is intended" Some Bush defenders say this dredge-ful plan is a diversion to get radical environmentalists opposed to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" off the White House's back...
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...I called political writers for major newspapers, and eminent political analysts, and asked them: Does anybody actually lose an election over environmental issues...
...Save-the-Earth, pummeling Bush and Dick Cheney for their oil industry ties.Yet even in a time of prosperity, the environment was at best a wash for Democrats...
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...Susan Sieber of the National Cancer Institute has stated that her agency--the Federal clearinghouse for cancer researchmknew of"no evidence" that eating fish from the Hudson River posed a human cancer risk...
...A similar political jujitsu is needed on the environment, persuading city-dwelling Americans that government mismanagement is as dangerous to the environment as any chemical.What good is it to stop timber harvesting if it leads to three times as many trees destroyed by forest fires...
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