Investigation Details Bush Admin. Cover Up of Hundreds of Dr

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Investigation Details Bush Admin. Cover Up of Hundreds of Dropped Enforcement Actions
New report highlights urgent need for urgent congressional action

December 16, 2008

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Washington, DC -- The results of a Congressional investigation released today details the deterioration of the Clean Water Act enforcement program in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that called into question whether certain rivers, streams, wetlands and other waters remain protected from pollution.


The investigation, by Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L. Oberstar, uncovered information EPA is keeping hidden from Congressional investigators and the public: namely the details of over 500 clean water enforcement cases that have been dropped or stalled in the wake of the 2006 Rapanos decision -- almost half of the agency's annual water enforcement docket.