{"id":1848,"date":"2004-05-28T09:51:56","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1848.html"},"modified":"2004-05-28T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T14:51:56","slug":"quickestreversalever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/quickestreversalever\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickest…reversal…ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen quick reversals before, but this one was stunning.<\/p>\n

At 3:34pm (eastern), the AP ran an item<\/a> explaining that the U.S. Army, hoping to trim its budget, will drop several key environmental protections.<\/p>\n

According to a May 11 memo obtained by The Associated Press, Army Maj. Gen. Anders Aadland wrote that the Army will now “take additional risk in environmental programs; terminate environmental contracts and delay all non-statutory enforcement actions” until after the new fiscal year begins in October. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

An environmental group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the Pentagon is irresponsibly ordering severe cuts in spending on programs that reduce pollution and protect wildlife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was a discouraging article. The report explained that the Army plan would be to scrap current protections for protecting endangered species, disposing of munitions in open-air burning, and monitoring groundwater.<\/p>\n

And at 4:53pm (eastern), the AP ran a follow-up report<\/a>, pointing to a startling u-turn.<\/p>\n

The Army on Thursday scrapped plans to curtail some environmental protections and contracts after learning from Pentagon budget officials it could make do with cuts elsewhere. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“We will be able to continue all the environmental programs, the summer hires and particularly the force protection … that we previously thought we would have to defer,” Phil Sakowitz, deputy director for the Army’s new Installation Management Activity command headed by Aadland, told the AP in an interview.<\/p>\n

“All those things we said in the (e-mail message) concerning environment are off the table. All of them,” Sakowitz said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What an incredibly fast change of heart. You can tell it’s an election year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen quick reversals before, but this one was stunning. At 3:34pm (eastern), the AP ran an item explaining that the U.S. Army, hoping to trim its budget, will drop several key environmental protections. According to a May 11 memo obtained by The Associated Press, Army Maj. Gen. Anders Aadland wrote that the Army will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}