American Voters Want EPA, Not Congress, to Set Standards

[wtmusic]

"A new bi-partisan survey released yesterday claims Americans trust the EPA not Congress to protect them from pollution.

The survey was released just one day before the US House of Representatives votes on a bill that would curtail the EPA's ability to protect public health from air pollution.

The American Lung Association (ALA) commissioned the survey, conducted jointly by the polling firms Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (Democrat) and Ayres, McHenry & Associates (Republican).

What they found was that three out of four American voters support the EPA setting tougher standards on specific air pollutants, including mercury, smog and carbon dioxide, as well as setting higher fuel efficiency standards for heavy duty trucks."

http://www.thegreenskeptic.com/2011/02/american-voters-want-epa-not-congress.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreenSkeptic+%28The+Green+Skeptic%29

Above: The smokestack of a coal plant belches brownish steam.

[saras]

1. Good post, mostly

But steam isn't brownish. Neither is water vapor. Or CO2. There's something else coming out of that smokestack.

[wtmusic]

2. My bad.

:thumbsup: :D

[Kolesar]

3. The steam is tinted with particulates and sulfur compounds, I expect

so the stack emissions are brownish