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Posted by: engineer 1 year, 11 months agoThe US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was behind a controversial decision to block California's attempt to impose tough emission limits on car manufacturers, according to insiders at the government Environmental Protection Agency.
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engineer
Jan. 6, 2008, 2:31 p.m.Staff at the agency, which announced last week that California's proposed limits were redundant, said the agency's chief went against their expert advice after car executives met Cheney, and a Chrysler executive delivered a letter to the EPA saying why the state should not be allowed to regulate greenhouse gases.
EPA staff members told the Los Angeles Times that the agency's head, the Bush appointee Stephen Johnson, ignored their conclusions and shut himself off from consultation in the month before the announcement. He then informed them of his decision and instructed them to provide the legal rationale for it, they said.
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GrainOfSand
Jan. 6, 2008, 2:55 p.m.Why hasn't Cheney been ousted from office? This man is a complete evil warmongering, deceitful and evil human being. (Human being is too good a word to use for this creature.)
If he can't profit from it, then he's not for it.
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texangelwings
Jan. 6, 2008, 3:33 p.m.Wonder what our forefathers would say, if they were here today to witness the current government of the USA?
What worries me the most, is what we don't know about yet!
Thanks engineer.
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cowboygrandpa
Jan. 6, 2008, 5:31 p.m.You know all Cheyney would have to do is come out here on a hot smoggy summer day.
See all the filthy smoke being spewed out of cars driven by illegal aliens. Going to jobs that should be held by legal tax paying voting citizens.
Breathe this in day after day, fight the traffic, the cost of living, the frustration of overcrowded roads with no relief in sight and be told that your government knows best.
To get the answer I would love to give him personally. I'm flying my middle fingers in a double barreled salute to you Cheney. Long may they wave, as long as you a free man who belongs in prison.
Thanks engineer.
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scriblerus1
Jan. 6, 2008, 8:02 p.m.Want to know who the oligarchy is? It's the energy execs who met with Cheney early on in the first term of the Bush dictatorship. We the people have never been given their names.
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NelsonR
Jan. 6, 2008, 9:53 p.m.I cannot fathom why Halliburton gets no bid contracts for billions. Halliburton moves off shore when investigations are in the air, yet the Democrats have been silent. I can understand the corrupt Republicans not getting involved but where are our elected representatives?
Why no outcry from the public. Cheney is involved, we all know it, our government knows it, yet silence. Is our nation this corrupt? The second point, why would you continue to give no bid contracts to a company who moves offshore?
How low have we sunk. You neo cons sink this post since it will offend your war hawkish stance which shows no common decency. Repugnants you are to accept Bush/Cheney.
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1-2-Oscar
Jan. 6, 2008, 10:02 p.m.In keeping with The Guardian's high journalistic standards, no actual source is named in the article. The article also fails to provide any direct connection or evidence of communication between Cheney and EPA chief Stephen Johnson.
The Guardian is aware of the laws regarding libel and rarely provides enough substance to prevent it from denying that any improper influence was inferred.
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kedirian
Jan. 6, 2008, 11:31 p.m.From the very beginning of his campaign for the Presidency, when Gov. Bush announced the creation of a Commission (around 1999) to "help him search for a runningmate", especially when that Commission was to be headed by Dick Cheney, I have smelled a rat in the form of a conspiracy... a conspiracy by frightened, elderly tycoons against the American People!
Misleading Congress into an illegal War against the wrong country, diminishing our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms "in the name of fighting terorism, wrecking our treasury,and on and on, and finally this action by his EPA-flunkie have convinced me that my earlier suspicions proved sadly correct....
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unome2
Jan. 7, 2008, 8:27 a.m.IMPEACHMENT IS OFF THE TABLE BECAUSE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH THREATENED THEY WOULD BOMB IRAN AND START WW111.
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1-2-Oscar
Jan. 7, 2008, 8:53 a.m."thats an actual quote from an EPA staff member. or are you saying the LA Times doctored this story and just made sh*t up?
No, Nelson, I'm saying exactly what I said--that the article does not identify its sources and it fails to connect the three separate actions which it implies are part of a conspiracy. You can attend remedial reading classes at your local high school--they're free.
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mmrhe
Jan. 7, 2008, 9:18 a.m.Hey Oscar...Even circumstantial evidence is allowed in a court of law.
If I go to bed at night and wake up the next morning to find snow on the ground, I can logically conclude it snowed even though I never actually saw it.
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vor
Jan. 7, 2008, 2:32 p.m.Anything to keep the corporate base happy. He could care less what the public thinks of him. In fact he seems to revel in his gruffness. Let's hope that come Jan. '09 the man is gone from the upper echelons of Washington never to return. Don't count on that happening. Why can't he just go rule Dubai (new Haliburton headquarters) or something? Would be glad to put the boot to him!
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