Posted on 08/30/2014 1:34:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Environmental Protection Agency’s staff has concluded that the government needs to tighten smog rules by somewhere between 7 and 20 percent.
In its final recommendation in a 597-page report, the agency staff agrees with EPA’s outside scientific advisers that the 6-year-old standard for how much smog is allowed needs to be stricter, saying it will save a significant number of lives and cut hospital visits. An earlier version of the report came to a similar conclusion.
Industry representatives criticized the recommendation as way too costly, while environmental activists hailed it as a public health measure. …
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.. a group of people a couple of years out of college, festering with anti-American freedom doctrines and dedicated to the destruction of personal liberty, having never been taught that this argument occurred in the 60's and for all practical purposes accomplished the ends of a cleaner environment ,
has concluded that the government needs to tighten smog rules by somewhere between 7 and 20 percent.
One question: WHAT smog? I haven’t seen any smog since the early eighties.”
Yea, What smog?
Do not try to tell me this cannot be DEFUNDED...the Republicans in the House have for to start defunding this madness!
London. 1952. Between 4000 and 12,000 died Dec 9 from smog. The EPA seems not to notice that this sort of thing stopped happening decades ago.
What smog?
Seriously.
Air quality is pretty d#mn good.
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