Pro-Chemical Lobbying Aims to Undermine International Regulatory Efforts
The Regime of Poison: Bush Administration's Pro-Chemical Lobbying
Aims to Undermine International Regulatory Efforts
by Yves Engler
Monday’s Financial Times had two reports about the Bush administration’s pro chemical lobbying that should alarm all those concerned about human health and the environment. The first was titled “US diplomats to lobby EU on chemicals rules” and second “US wins deal over Montreal Protocol.” The FT reports: “Colin Powell, US secretary of state, has directed US diplomats to lobby European governments against controversial European Commission plans for new regulations on the chemicals industry.” Why is Powell anxious?
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/April2004/Engler0401.htm
Aims to Undermine International Regulatory Efforts
by Yves Engler
Monday’s Financial Times had two reports about the Bush administration’s pro chemical lobbying that should alarm all those concerned about human health and the environment. The first was titled “US diplomats to lobby EU on chemicals rules” and second “US wins deal over Montreal Protocol.” The FT reports: “Colin Powell, US secretary of state, has directed US diplomats to lobby European governments against controversial European Commission plans for new regulations on the chemicals industry.” Why is Powell anxious?
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/April2004/Engler0401.htm
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