E-TO:   E-Mail address of recipient:

E-FROM:  Your E-Mail Return Address:

Your Name:

Message to be included in e-mail (replace as needed):
I thought you might be interested in this article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about the emerging crisis in environmental regulation, as lobbyists take over regulatory agencies. From EarthLight Magazine, Winter 2005. (see link below)

Location of document or web site (clickable link included in message) :

http://www.earthlight.org/2005/essay52_kennedy.html

Description/excerpt (included in message):

[excerpt] The head of the Forest Service is a timber industry lobbyist who is probably the most rapacious timber industry lobbyist in American history. The head of public lands is a mining industry lobbyinst who believes that public lands are unconstitutional. The of the Air Division at the EPA is a utility lobbyist who has represented the worst polluters in America for twenty years. The head of Superfund is a woman whose former job was advision companies how to evade Superfund. The second in command at EPA is a Monsanto lobbyist -- these are not exceptions, these are the rules across the agencies. I think it's a good idea to bring business people into government, to bring that experience and expertise. These individuals did not enter government service for the purpose of promoting the public interest, but in each of these cases, rather to subvert the very laws they are now charged with enforcing. We are seeing the impacts of this already. This year, for the first year on record, the EPA announced that the dead zone in Lake Erie -- you remember that Lake Erie was declared dead prior to Earth Day 1970 -- is growing.

or