Bush Bite #7 - 20 Sep 2004
Cleaning the skies for polluters
Bush unveiled a bold new air protection plan in February 2002... bold in that it was actually an air POLLUTION plan. The so-called "Clear Skies" Act gutted the Clean Air Act of 1972, lowered pollutant reduction targets and pushed back target dates.
To help "clean the skies", the CSA doubles the amount of sulfer dioxide (which causes acid rain and respiratory disease) that may be released each year.
The CSA allows twice as much nitrogen oxide releases (which causes ozone smog).
And the CSA allows five times more mercury releases than the extinct Clean Air Act did. Mercury causes brain, lung and kidney damage and birth defects.
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