Thursday, October 30, 2003

Fill In the Everglades - Quick!

If there is one thing that conservatives continually surprise me on it's the environment. But this latest goes way beyond surprise... I'm not even sure I could classify this one...

Only in the conservative up-is-down Bizarro World would the following headline make sense: WETLANDS POLLUTE, SAYS STUDY OKAYED BY EPA.

I'm not kidding. The study was contracted by a group of south west Florida developers (surprised?) and basically says that developers can get "credit for improving water quality by replacing natural wetlands with golf courses and other developments."

aWol's EPA approved the study which is so flawed that "Bruce Boler, a former state water quality specialist, resigned after three years with EPA. In his resignation, Boler cited the stance taken by the EPA Regional Administrator Jimmie Palmer that “EPA would not oppose state positions, so if a state had no water quality problems with a project then neither would EPA.” The state of Florida has already signed off on the Harper Report."

Link via Altercation.

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