Good for her!

Timely thread, Peter. I just read in today's paper that Utah's governor Mike Leavitt, the Resident's new choice for the EPA, is using the newly coined term "Enlibra" which is supposed to mean "balance and stewardship." If one reads his words and looks at his record, though, it is just a new form of double-speak for raping and pillaging our natural resources.

From the article: Enlibra envisions moving environmental decision-making down from the federal level as much as possible -- a move that raises environmentalists' fears that state and local governments will engage in a 'race to the bottom,' luring industry with loose rules or enforcement.

Leavitt has distributed his own "Enlibra principles" sheet. One of them requires that costs be strictly considered in setting environmental policy. Carol Brown, Clinton's EPA administrator says that such rigid cost-benefit analyses traditionally overestimate costs to industry and underestimate environmental benefits.

All one may ever want to know about Enlibra.