Fence on U.S.-Mexican border paves over environmental regulations

Posted on: October 23rd, 2007
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“Citing threats to the nation’s security, homeland security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived compliance with the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act and others to restart construction on an Arizona stretch of the fence on the U.S.-Mexican border. (See these stories in the New York Times and Associated Press, brought to my attention via Grist.)”*

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