Nationally, environmental leaders are already battling with the BushAdministration over cabinet positions that will be responsible for thenation’s environmental policy. In the Great Lakes region,environmentalists are waiting to see what the new Bush White House willmean here. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports:
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Nationally, environmental leaders are already battling with the Bush
Administration over cabinet positions that will be responsible for the
nation’s environmental policy. In the Great Lakes region, environmentalists
are waiting to see what the new Bush White House will mean here. The Great
Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports.
Most leaders around the lakes seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach to
the new administration. However, at least one leading environmentalist is
worried. Keith Schneider is the program director of the Michigan Land Use
Institute. He says in his state he’s been battling Governor John Engler
over development that Schneider says damages the environment. Up until
now. Federal agencies have been safeguarding many environmentally sensitive
areas from development.
“Well, what happens when all these federal agencies working at the regional
level are changed and the ideology changes and Bush’s ideology on
development and the environment is virtually identical to Engler’s ideology
on development and the environment, where’s the technical data base that
says it’s illegal. Or you can’t do it. Or you have to do it another way?”
However, none of the Bush cabinet nominees have yet indicated any major
changes are in store for the Great Lakes region.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.