Big business republican lobbyists, nervously anticipating Democratic gains in next year’s elections, are racing to secure final approval for gutting a wide range of health, safety, labor and economic rules.
They are lobbying the Bush administration to roll back rules that let employees take time off for family needs and medical problems. Electric power companies are pushing the government to relax pollution-control requirements.
For example, coal companies are lobbying for a regulation that would allow them to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.
The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting final rules that would allow utility companies to modify coal-fired power plants and increase their emissions into the air we breath without installing new pollution-control equipment.
Corporations and trade associations are expecting battles over taxes and health care as they lobby in advance of the next year's elections.
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