Environment and Campaign

August 12, 1996

THE DAILY FED

Environment and Campaign

epublicans who backed the drinking water protection and pesticides control laws to spruce up their tattered environmental credentials could be disappointed.

``The damage has already been done,'' Republican pollster Vince Breglio said, referring to earlier Republican attempts to roll back federal environmental protection programs.

Sixty-five per cent of the public believes Congress is doing a poor to fair job of protecting the environment, according to a poll conducted by Breglio and Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart for the National Wildlife Federation.