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> The first story is an interesting article concerning USFWS, Army Corps,
> Missouri River and current Administration. If the link won't work as
> is, you
> will have to copy and past the entire link into the URL. It is one
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> no spaces or returns.
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> http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/
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> EPA Biologist Resigns in Protest of Wetlands Study
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> WASHINGTON, DC, October 23, 2003 (ENS) - A U.S. Environmental
> Protection
> Agency (EPA) biologist has resigned in protest of the agency's
> acceptance of a controversial study that concludes wetlands discharge
> more pollutants than they absorb, according to a statement released
> Wednesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
> The EPA's approval of the study gives developers credit for improving
> water quality by replacing natural wetlands with golf courses and other
> developments, PEER says.
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> "In the Bush administration's bizarre world of 'sound science,'
> wetlands
> cause pollution and there is no evidence of global warming," said PEER
> Executive Director Jeff Ruch. "EPA's new position that wetlands pollute
> stands the Clean Water Act on its head and sends the all clear signal
> to
> developers that no project is out of bounds."
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> The report was financed by a group of local developers in Southwest
> Florida. It concludes that wetlands generate pollution and recommends
> that developers be allowed to avoid federal wetlands restrictions by
> allowing a few cattle to graze in the wetland so it can classified as
> "improved pasture."
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> The agency's acceptance of the report was too much for Bruce Boler, a
> former state water quality specialist to take - he resigned after three
> years with the EPA.
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> In his resignation statement, Boler cited the stance taken by the EPA
> Regional Administrator Jimmie Palmer that the agency "would not oppose
> state positions, so if a state had no water quality problems with a
> project then neither would EPA."
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> The state of Florida has already signed off on the controversial
> wetlands report.
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> "Ultimately, the politics in southwest Florida have proven to be
> stronger than the science," Boler wrote in his resignation letter.
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