Laptop Battery New Jersey joined nine other East Coast states Thursday in seeking an emergency court order blocking the implementation of the Bush administration's changes to the Clean Air Act, changes the states claim would irreparably harm the region's air quality.
One of Senator Jeffords' most recent acts of environmental leadership is his effort to clean up America's air through the Clean Power Act. This bill reflects a good approach to reducing air pollution and is in sharp contrast to President Bush's inadequate "Clear Skies Initiative." President Bush's proposal is a risky scheme that won't help communities protect their families and the planet from asthma, acid rain, or global warming pollution. Instead, it will weaken the Clean Air Act.
Thinkpad The new rules, due to take effect March 3, would exempt many factories and power plants from the act's new-source review provisions, which require older facilities to install modern pollution control equipment when they expand.
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Microsoft The states already have filed suit with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, but Thursday's action seeks an emergency stay of the rules because the case might not be decided for months.
This related and extremely controversial move would mean considering a wholesale change in the way the Bush administration's EPA applies the Clean Air Act to animal factories. By defining emissions from confinement buildings and manure lagoons at feedlots as "fugitive emissions, " the EPA would effectively exempt the U.S. livestock and poultry industry from the Clean Air Act. Fugitive emissions do not count for purposes of determining whether a source must obtain clean air permits, so the classification of emissions as fugitive or nonfugitive is the singular decision that largely determines whether animal factories are regulated under the Clean Air Act as major sources of pollution. The EPA is expected to issue a decision by late May. //www.sierraclub. cafo_papers.asp
Laptop Computers State Environmental Commissioner Bradley M. Campbell said more than a third of the state's air pollution comes from other states, carried by prevailing westerly winds. The rules proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would allow out-of-state facilities to continue polluting New Jersey's air forever, he said.
Already this year in New Jersey, alert days during which it was unsafe to be outside and breathe the air. air safeguards. However, the Bush administration's deceptively named "Clear Skies" air standards set forth in the Clean Air Act. Instead of supporting the "dirty skies" initiative that caters to oil, electric, and coal industries, plant emission reductions so that all people can have the chance to breathe cleaner air and be healthy.
Laptop Computer "EPA and the Bush administration have to get the message: Protecting public health and the environment is a sacred trust, and enforcing the law is a sacred obligation," Campbell said.
awaited "Clear Skies" proposal, which he promises will simplify and strengthen the Clean Air Act without crippling American industry. old Clean Air Act a stronger and more efficient instrument is surely long overdue. But the Bush plan falls well short of the only other credible proposal on the table, a bill sponsored by Senator James Jeffords of Vermont.
Desktop Computer The Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a group of power companies, said the Clean Air Act changes would allow all manufacturing facilities to perform maintenance and technology upgrades that would actually reduce emissions by increasing efficiency.
Notebooks "Unfortunately, today's action by the Northeast attorneys general jeopardizes progress in fixing this Clean Air program and potentially sacrifices improvements in environmental health and safety," council Director Scott Segal said.
Lenovo The other states participating in the stay motion are Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Hard Drive Eight other states have filed briefs in support of the EPA's changes: Virginia, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Kansas, Nebraska and Indiana.
Travelstar By Jack Kaskey
The Press of Atlantic City - 2/7/2003
Topic: Air Pollution
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