i don't know when these stupid-ass people

will EVER learn!

1) the earth is about 3 or 4 thousand years old
2) dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. as a matter of fact, fred flintstone REALLY did ride dino just like roy rode trigger
3) the rapture is coming
4) 'the' gays, 'the' blacks, 'the' jews, 'the' rest of 'em who aren't like US don't count
5) THERE IS NO EFFING THING SUCH AS GLOBAL WARMING OR POLLUTION

Boxer calls for withdrawal of 'blatantly illegal' EPA memo
Muriel Kane
Senate Environment Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey urging him to require Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson to withdraw a "blatantly illegal memo" which would prohibit carbon dixoide emissions from being taken into consideration when issuing air pollution permits.

In a press release accompanying the strongly worded letter, Boxer states, "This illegal document issued by Stephen Johnson makes it clear that he has become a renegade Administrator. He defies the clear language of our environmental laws and acts without legal authority. Mr. Johnson's latest action is intended to make the job of combating global warming more difficult and will add to the millions of taxpayer dollars he has wasted in defending his illegal decisions. The Attorney General has an obligation to intervene when the actions of the Administration are so clearly outside the law."......

why are we allowing

our own selves to KILL our own selves? the proof is on the table. pollution is killing our earth and in turn killing us. do we really need an oil refinery next to yellowstone? aren't there BETTER and CLEANER ways to power our country and the rest of the world (the answer my dears is OF COURSE there are but the good ol' white boy network hasn't let it happened. looks like the good ol' white boy network is gonna start getting some cracks in the vase though - oh and hell yeah i'm smilin')

you know you read something like this and it's like a knife to your heart. how can they even propose such a thing much less APPROVE IT?

EPA Moves to Ease Air Rules for Parks

Regional Administrators Decry Decision

By Juliet Eilperin

Washington Post Staff Writer

The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, even though half of the EPA's 10 regional administrators formally dissented from the decision and four others criticized the move in writing.

Documents obtained by The Washington Post show that the administration's push to weaken Clean Air Act protections for "Class 1 areas" nationwide has sparked fierce resistance from senior agency officials. All but two of the regional administrators objecting to the proposed rule are political appointees.

The proposal would change the practice of measuring pollution levels near national parks, which is currently done over three-hour and 24-hour increments to capture emission spikes during periods of peak energy demand; instead, the levels would be averaged over a year. Under this system, spikes in pollution would no longer violate the law..........

impeach

i am begging you impeach the soul-less, immoral, stupid 'non-golfing' piece o' steamin' shite that is our king
please

Clean-Air Rules Protecting Parks Set to Be Eased
By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer
The Bush administration is on the verge of implementing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas, according to rank-and-file agency scientists and park managers who oppose the plan.
The new regulations, which are likely to be finalized this summer, rewrite a provision of the Clean Air Act that applies to "Class 1 areas," federal lands that currently have the highest level of protection under the law. Opponents predict the changes will worsen visibility at many of the nation's most prized tourist destinations, including Virginia's Shenandoah, Colorado's Mesa Verde and North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt national parks.
Nearly a year ago, with little fanfare, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed changing the way the government measures air pollution near Class 1 areas on the grounds that the nation needed a more uniform way of regulating emissions near protected areas. The agency closed the comment period in April and has indicated it is not making significant changes to the draft rule, despite objections by EPA staff members.
Jeffrey R. Holmstead, who now heads the environmental strategies group at the law firm Bracewelll & Giuliani, helped initiate the rule change while heading the EPA's air and radiation office. He said agency officials became concerned that the EPA's scientific staff was taking "the most conservative approach" in predicting how much pollution new power plants would produce........

don't like the limits (OR the truth)?

just change 'em then! the epa does

i'm being flippant, but this IS a life or death matter
EPA Tightens Pollution Standards
But Agency Ignored Advisers' Guidance

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday limited the allowable amount of pollution-forming ozone in the air to 75 parts per billion, a level significantly higher than what the agency's scientific advisers had urged for this key component of unhealthy air pollution. Administrator Stephen L. Johnson also said he would push Congress to rewrite the nearly 37-year-old Clean Air Act to allow regulators to take into consideration the cost and feasibility of controlling pollution when making decisions about air quality, something that is currently prohibited by the law. In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that the government needed to base the ozone standard strictly on protecting public health, with no regard to cost. ..............

............With Democrats in control of Congress, the proposal to rewrite the Clean Air Act appears to face long odds. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) called the move "outrageous," adding in a statement, "The Bush Administration would have us replace clean air standards driven by science with standards based on the interests of polluters." .............