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Article: Republican Control of Congress Could Have Broad Effect.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 7, 2002
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The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 7--With the Republican Party now in control of the executive and legislative branches of government, the GOP may have a much freer hand in setting national policy. Here are areas that may be affected:
ENVIRONMENT:
The GOP will have more freedom to ease laws limiting power-plant pollution, less pressure to tax businesses to clean up toxic waste, and another shot, though perhaps a long one, on drilling for oil in the Arctic.
Environmental groups have savaged President Bush for two years for questioning a limit on arsenic in drinking water, pushing for more ...