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Bush - Lead Rules

The Bush administration plans to uphold regulations issued in the last weeks of Bill Clinton's presidency requiring thousands of more businesses to report their releases of toxic lead into the environment. NPR's John Nielsen reports on the details of the announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Christie Whitman.

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