Bush Defies UN -- Again

Not to mention, the environment ...

U.S. Has Been Stockpiling Banned Pesticide
The Los Angeles Times
Marla Cone reports:

"The U.N. hadn't known the size of the reserve -- about a year's worth -- when it gave exemptions to make ozone-depleting methyl bromide.

The United States has stockpiled millions of pounds of methyl bromide, a pesticide that depletes the ozone layer, according to newly public documents -- information that could create a stir during international negotiations next month, when the Bush administration seeks permission to produce more."

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Related 'War on the Environment' articles:

• Interior's Internal Messes - The New York Times reports

  "We knew that bad things would happen when President Bush filled many of his important environmental posts with right-wing activists and industry lobbyists who had spent their careers criticizing the laws they were now being told to uphold and representing industries they were now being told to regulate. Just how bad became clear this week in the course of some pointed testimony from the Interior Department's inspector general, who accused top officials at his agency of fostering a culture of "managerial irresponsibility" that tolerated conflicts of interest, cronyism and other lapses."

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