Commentary: Epa to Allow Dumping in Long Island Sound

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Sometimes you've got to wonder what motivates the thinking at the Environmental Protection Agency. What carries more weight in their decisions? Is it the economic costs of environmental preservation or is it the preservation of a constantly shrinking environment? Every indication from the Bush EPA is that the former is more important - from the premature resignation of Bush's first EPA administrator Christie Whitman, to the desire to drill for oil in the pristine wilderness of Alaska, or to the recent disclosure of EPA's intentions to sanction the dumping of dredge materials in Long Island Sound.

The EPA, exposing its tin ear to the needs of the ecologically significant Long Island Sound, is poised to approve a plan to dump as much as 20 million cubic yards of dredge spoils from industrialized Connecticut waterways into Long Island waters.

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Commentary: Epa to Allow Dumping in Long Island Sound

While some have described these Connecticut waterways as polluted, a contention that the EPA has disputed, the fact is that two sites ...

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