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Article: Bush administration hits polluters with fewer, smaller fines.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 4, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ Polluters have paid 64 percent less in fines for breaking federal environmental rules under the Bush administration than they did in the final two years of the Clinton administration, according to federal records analyzed by Knight Ridder.
The Bush administration is forcing fewer polluters to pay fines, and the penalties are much smaller than they were under Clinton, according to records obtained by a former top environmental-enforcement official under President Bush.
"There's a tremendous problem with environmental policy in general and enforcement in particular in this administration," said Sylvia Lowrance, who was the Environmental ...