On December 7, 1992 Gore’s office issued a pressrelease headlined: “CLINTON-GORE ADMINISTRATION WOULD NOT ISSUE TESTBURN PERMIT” for the WTI incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio. Gore now claims that his “legal ability to stop the permit was removed” because the Bush Administration issued the permit during the transition period. Now it turns out that Gore played a role in having the permit issued.
NADER CALLS ON ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO DROP SUPPORT FOR GORE IN LIGHT OF WTI TESTIMONY
SEATTLE, WA.Nov. 2-Ralph Nader urged voters concerned with the environment to reconsider support for Al Gore after testimony revealed that the Vice President had intervened in support of an environmentally unsafe incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio.
Former EPA Administrator William Reilly testified on Tuesday that a top Gore aide encouraged him to issue a trial-burn permit for the WTI incinerator located in East Liverpool-despite Gore
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Original: NADER CALLS ON ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO DROP SUPPORT FOR GORE, CITING WTI TESTIMONY