41.   But Clinton said that even if Congress approves the China pact this year, Gore would still be able to negotiate labor and environmental standards in the future.

42.   But fears over loss of jobs and a lowering of environmental standards have fueled Democratic opposition in the House.

43.   But in the long run, not setting adequate environmental standards costs far more.

44.   But just getting their food processing industry and factory smokestacks to meet European health and environmental standards is terribly expensive.

45.   But the setting of environmental standards is as much art as science, one that entails innumerable assumptions about risks, costs and benefits.

46.   But, actually, this is not a column about THM or environmental standards at all.

47.   Chafee is concerned about relaxing environmental standards and said his committee may not even finish its review of the law this year.

48.   Democrats retorted that the trade authority failed to ensure that developing nations would uphold labor and environmental standards in their quest to profit in the global market.

49.   Democrats want to require foreign companies exporting to the U.S. to adhere to the same labor and environmental standards as their American competitors.

50.   Democrats pointed to those letters to argue that Bush did not share their concerns about labor and environmental standards and should not be given unfettered trade authority.