Keeping us Safe, or Breaking the Law...
I don't know which topic to put this under. Apparently, the courts have decided that the GOP Bush administration's attempt to weaken the clean air act by allowing coal fired power plants to spew more pollutants, is illegal.
"Judge Judith Rogers, writing for the court, castigated the U.S. EPA for trying to redefine language in the Clean Air Act to selectively exclude many facilities from the requirement that they install new air-pollution controls when making significant upgrades." ("Humpty Dumpty Dance" The Daily Grist 20-Mar-2006)
This pollution includes sulfur and mercury. Sulfur, bad for breathing and converts to acid rain, and mercury, bad for young (and old) minds, and accumulates in you body.
So when the GOP Bush Administration tried to weaken these rules, was it trying to keep us safe, or just obey an existing (and good for all of us) law?
"Judge Judith Rogers, writing for the court, castigated the U.S. EPA for trying to redefine language in the Clean Air Act to selectively exclude many facilities from the requirement that they install new air-pollution controls when making significant upgrades." ("Humpty Dumpty Dance" The Daily Grist 20-Mar-2006)
This pollution includes sulfur and mercury. Sulfur, bad for breathing and converts to acid rain, and mercury, bad for young (and old) minds, and accumulates in you body.
So when the GOP Bush Administration tried to weaken these rules, was it trying to keep us safe, or just obey an existing (and good for all of us) law?
posted by Will4Earth | 6:20 PM
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