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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (133695)2/27/2001 6:40:21 PM
From: stribe30  Read Replies (2) of 1570734
 
Scumbria; all is not lost

"US pollution ruling hailed"

Environmentalists in the United States are
celebrating what they say is an historic ruling
by the Supreme Court.

In a unanimous decision, the nine judges ruled
that health benefits should be the sole criteria
in setting air pollution standards.

Road haulage associations, manufacturers and
chambers of commerce had all challenged the
way the Environmental Protection Agency or
EPA set pollution standards.

Lawyers for the industry lobby argued that the
EPA had tightened ozone and soot levels
without clear criteria and without consideration
of the cost, which they put at $50bn a year.

They said the new
stricter controls,
revised in 1997, had to
take into account the
cost of enforcement
and balance that
against health benefits.

Clean air cost

But the Supreme Court
justices rejected that
argument completely.

They said that the
Clean Air Act, one of
America's central environmental protection
laws, specifically barred considerations of cost.

The justices did strike down one of the EPA's
new standards as unreasonable, but
environmental organisations are jubilant that
the EPA has won what one group called a
'tremendously important' case.

news.bbc.co.uk
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