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From Common Dreams...
.....Norton began her career litigating on behalf of cattlemen, miners and oil companies at James Watt's Mountain States Legal Foundation. She followed Watt to the Department of Interior, where she advocated policies such as opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. In the late 1980s, at the conservative Pacific Research Institute, she helped plan litigation strategy to enhance individual property rights at the expense of community interests. As Colorado's attorney general, Norton implemented a "self-auditing" procedure that allows polluters to evade environmental fines and promoted legislation that would have enshrined an extreme view of the "takings" clause of the U.S. Constitution.....
Norton is a dangerous species. She is owned by the cattle, timber and mining interests of the West. A true sold out corporatist attorney from the Sage Brush Rebellion, Mountain States Legal, Heritage, Coors bullshit school of thinking. In the company of James Watt and Ann Gorsuch Burford. These people are truly some of America's greediest, most selfish and least conservation minded. MonkeyNuts didn't appoint her for love of the environment. She is an enemy of the planet. How is it possible that this Repuke administration is dead wrong on every single environmental issue and policy. EPA and Interior are jokes to Republicans. Directors are there to dismantle these departments.
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