… full-on assault against protections …

Quote of the Day — 7 March 2011

” … What we have seen most recently is folks just basically taking the debate over the budget and the financial situation and using it as cover to attack core environmental protections … They are using the budget process as a costume to hide what they are doing – which is a full-on assault against our fundamental environmental protections. … “

— Joe Mendelson, director of global warming policy at the National Wildlife Federation
— quoted by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
— “Republicans attack Obama’s environmental protection from all sides“
— guardian.co.uk

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/04/republicans-attack-obamas-environmental-protection
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