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Clear Skies Act Receives State and Local Government Support; State and Local Officials Call for Immediate Passage 8/5/03 10:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Environment Reporter Contact: Lisa Harrison of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 202-564-9828 WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Bush Administration's Clear Skies Act of 2003, establishing a mandatory multi-pollutant approach to reducing air pollution, is receiving bi-partisan support from state and local elected officials, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said today. National government associations, including the National Association of Counties (NACo), U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), and National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM), have...

<p>I'M RE-READING George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, "1984," so I may be a bit sensitive to official language that masks what's really going on. In the bleak world of "1984," as you may remember, the Ministry of Truth publishes lies, the Ministry of Love tortures people and the Ministry of Peace wages perpetual war.</p>

Former Vermont governor and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has been repeating a deceptive tale about the Bush administration over and over on the campaign trail. In speeches and in interviews, Dean frequently implies that a Bush administration environmental policy called "Clear Skies" would actually lead to increases in pollution from current levels. "This country's in a lot of trouble," he said last week on NBC's "Meet the Press." "It's in trouble because we have a radical right administration that are dismantling the New Deal and it is not telling the truth about a lot of things that they say....

O beautiful for smoggy skies For stunted fields of grain, For fading mountain majesties Above the barren plain If the Bush administration continues its current pace of dismantling environmental protections, Katharine Lee Bates' 110-year-old "America the Beautiful" will be ancient history. While Americans were tuned into the war in Iraq, the Bush administration was waging a quieter war on the environment. With the help of a GOP-dominated Congress eager to please the energy lobby, the Bush team is well on its way to commercializing the nation's precious natural resources. Leading the charge are industry-friendly agency appointees -- former timber lobbyist...

Acid Rain Program Brings Improvements WASHINGTON, DC, February 3, 2003 (ENS) - The federal Clean Air Act of 1990 appears to be successful in reducing two major types of air pollutants that contribute to acid rain. Acid rain includes both wet deposition through rain, snow and fog, and dry deposition through gases and particles of sulfate. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a report documenting the success of the agency's Acid Rain Program in reducing acid rain in sensitive ecosystems of the United States. The Acid Rain Program is a market based cap and trade program that...