One of the issues in the Supreme Court confirmation process for Samuel Alito is his lack of environmental concern, profiled well in this article:
Judge Alito provided the deciding vote in favor of polluters to overturn protective actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For example, in W.R. Grace v. EPA, Judge Alito provided the decisive vote to overturn the EPA's emergency-cleanup order under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The company had sued to block a requirement to clean up its pollution, which threatened the drinking water of 180,000 people in Lansing, Mich.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0119-23.htm
Posted by Dave at January 20, 2006 09:04 AM