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Between Barack and a Hard Place
Obama will block EPA nominees until agency issues new lead rules |
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07 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Between Barack and a Hard Place Obama will block EPA nominees until agency issues new lead rules President Bush's latest U.S. EPA nominee has run into an obstacle no one anticipated: a Democrat with cojones. On Friday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) announced he was placing a hold on the nomination of Susan Bodine to head the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response -- and furthermore, that h ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, Illinois, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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