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One day late in his life, Patterson telephoned one of his former postdoctoral students, Robert W. Elias, at the Environmental Protection Agency. The George H. Bush administration was attacking the agency, and Patterson knew how that kind of pressure felt. 

Tamminen had pushed George Bush and the federal government to the sidelines in the battle against global warming—except in their accustomed role as obstacles to action. Although the Bush administration had always championed state and local solutions to problems,... 

Food safety enforcement was not a high priority for the George W. Bush Administration. FSIS inspeetors faeed constant pressure from their superiors to keep produetion lines moving. Formal instructions to inspectors stated that they were authorized to stop a line only if a product that is going into the food supply has been direetly eontaminated and you can justify the production loss. A May 2002 memorandum told Kansas City inspectors that they could be held accountable for lost produetion if they slowed the lines to check for feces or to wash their hands, beeause small smears of feces on meat were tolerable. ... 

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