STAGNANT WATERS: THE LEGACY OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ON THE CLEAN WATER ACT
Report prepared by the minority staff of the U.S. House of Representative, Committee on Transportation and Infrasturcture.
"...The Bush administration has presided over the slow, but steady, dismantling of the Clean Water Act. However, unlike earlier overt attempts by Republicans in Congress, the Bush administration’s weakening of the Act has been subtle – eliminating Federal clean water protections in favor of market-based, pro-industry philosophies that will result in dirtier water throughout the United States.

Whether through internal administrative actions to undermine, withdraw, or weaken environmentally protective rules and regulations, through efforts to restrict or eliminate funding for Federal agencies charged with the responsibility of implementing or enforcing the nation’s environmental laws, or through outright reversals of important programs and policies that maintain water quality protection, the Bush administration has spent the last eight years undermining efforts to protect the nation’s waters..."