Breathe deeply...or maybe not
That right, folks, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, to you and me), has decided to relax clean air standards on old power plants, refineries and factories that want to upgrade their facilities. Apparently, the new regulations make it possible for such plants to become dirtier to which apparently makes it easier to install pollution reducing measures if one asks Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma. No wonder Christie Todd Whitman ran away from this mess, first the EPA is put in a position of denying global warming, and now they have to rescind their own rules.
Word is, now make sure you are sitting down for this, that the Bush Administration ushered in the change under pressure from corporate interests (read: oil companies) who care more about the bottom line than they do about Americans breathing healthy air. This all leads one to question what the EPA is mandated to protect (hint: it does not appear to be the environment).
Next the Bush administration will pressure the EPA to allow companies to dump toxic pollutants in to rivers, lakes and streams and claim that dumping bleach into our waters is the only way to keep the water clean.
This only proves that while Bush may have quit drinking, but he is still under the influence (of big money, that is).
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That right, folks, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, to you and me), has decided to relax clean air standards on old power plants, refineries and factories that want to upgrade their facilities. Apparently, the new regulations make it possible for such plants to become dirtier to which apparently makes it easier to install pollution reducing measures if one asks Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma. No wonder Christie Todd Whitman ran away from this mess, first the EPA is put in a position of denying global warming, and now they have to rescind their own rules.
Word is, now make sure you are sitting down for this, that the Bush Administration ushered in the change under pressure from corporate interests (read: oil companies) who care more about the bottom line than they do about Americans breathing healthy air. This all leads one to question what the EPA is mandated to protect (hint: it does not appear to be the environment).
Next the Bush administration will pressure the EPA to allow companies to dump toxic pollutants in to rivers, lakes and streams and claim that dumping bleach into our waters is the only way to keep the water clean.
This only proves that while Bush may have quit drinking, but he is still under the influence (of big money, that is).
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