That was a mistake, offering carte blanche for criticism of America for almost any environmental or economic ill, some justified, most not.

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We have always maintained that this development was ill thought out and potentially an environmental disaster waiting to happen.

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Or would the environmental consequences be of such magnitude as to make the decision ill-conceived?

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The other options, of working for a charity or an environmental task force, may suffer from the same low expectations as the ill-fated Community Programme in the 1980s.

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EPA. Its new director needs to confront the erroneous assumption that more ill-thought-out and costly regulations are the key to achieving better environmental quality.

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