Reply #6: AP: Air Pollution a Top Priority for Bush

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will make air pollution a top priority in Congress early next year, starting with ``an aggressive push'' to build support for his pollution-cutting plan, senior administration officials said Saturday.

At the same time, the administration will hold off until no later than March on a rule to cut pollution from power plants that would accomplish some of the same ends as Bush's anti-pollution plan, the officials told The Associated Press.

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The Bush administration is now staking its money on a bill in Congress that weakens and delays public health protections already provided under the current Clean Air Act, while forcing the EPA to delay public health protections under current law,'' said John Walke, director of clean air programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Administration officials now hope Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, can get the bill onto the Senate floor soon. The interstate rule on power plant pollution was to have been made final by the end of this year, but doing that could detract from the need for the legislation.

more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4669446,00.html

f'ing liars and hypocrites. :puke: