February 21, 2003

Of Patronage and Exploitation

By MALCOLM G. SCULLY

Michael Frome, a longtime environmental activist and writer, might have been engaging in a little hyperbole when he wrote, in Greenspeak: Fifty Years of Environmental Muckraking and Advocacy (University of Tennessee Press, 2002) that the "George W. Bush administration is probably the most openly anti-environmental administration in a century." But the president has done little to disabuse us of that conclusion.

Ever since Mr. Bush announced, shortly after his inauguration, that the

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