FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Posted by Clinton/Gore Email TUESDAY, October 27, 1992 *** WARNING! BUSH FLIP-FLOPS AHEAD! *** CAMPAIGN FOX-HOLE CONVERSION ON ENVIRONMENT: 1376 DAYS TOO LATE Gore Says Bush Offers Too Little, Too Late CHECK THE BUSH RECORD, NOT THE LAST-MINUTE PANIC PROMISES TODAY'S ISSUE: CLEAN AIR ACT FOOTDRAGGING Stay tuned for MORE! RACINE, WI -- More than 1300 days after taking office and promising to be the "Environmental President," George Bush is offering too little, too late in an expected series of environmental announcements vainly attempting to rehabilitate the failed Bush record, said Sen. Al Gore, D-TN, on Monday challenging the Bush offensive with the Bush record. "In the last week of his failing re-election campaign, George Bush suddenly has a campaign fox-hole conversion on the environment in an 'announcement-a-day' attempt to obscure his dismal record. It won't work. The American people won't be fooled," said Gore. "They want to know where he was for the first 1,376 days of his Administration to protect them instead of the big polluters who have found a back-door to the White House where they can line up for special favors." "On the environment, George Bush and Dan Quayle are a day late and a dollar short," said Gore. "There is no excuse for their inaction and no explanation for their record. George Bush and Dan Quayle are doing for the environment what they've done for the economy: nothing. There's no slight of hand that can hide that." "The week, we're going to remind George Bush and Dan Quayle of something they'd rather forget: their dismal environmental record," said Gore. Sometimes, late isn't better than never and this is one of those times." THE RECORD BUSH CAN'T HIDE: ACID RAIN AND THE CLEAN AIR ACT * Regulations due in May, 1992 to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides-- among the main causes of acid rain -- suddenly are ready for action one week before election day. * In the sulfur dioxide regulations, provisions to encourage the use of renewable, cleaner energy sources have been weakened. The Bush Administation would allow garbage burning to continue, so instead of working to reduce pollution, they're working to encourage more pollution. * Today, the Environmental Protection Agency also announces new, but hardly improved, regulations on nitrogen oxides. The fact is, EPA got rolled. Even EPA wanted to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides. But the Office of Management and Budget -- standing up once again for their rich friends and big polluters -- overruled EPA to allow industries to continue to dump dangerous levels of pollution into the air. #####################