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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (518)	6/15/2001 7:23:29 AM
From: Bearcatbob	of 1715

Gov. Gray Davis' decision this week to relax emission controls at power plants will help keep the juice flowing, but will also retard progress against smog. The changes are bound to cause mischief for some California areas on the cusp of achieving healthful air after more than 30 years of effort. Even a little extra pollution could be enough to thwart attainment of the national health-based ozone standards in the Bay Area, San Diego and "Ventura County, officials say. Moreover, in case the governor's strategy doesn't work, he has left open the option of tapping the dirtiest power source available--legions of backup diesel generators. Those 12,000 engines would provide a few hundred more megawatts, but at a terrible price for air quality, because they lack controls and can spew about 10 times more pollutants than the very dirty "peakers" that Davis exempted from emissions controls Monday. " If a Republican did that they would be accussed of poisoning children and killing old people. But then again - that is only rhetoric for use by the willing allies of the left in the media.

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