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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (304388)	10/4/2002 3:25:31 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: the treaty was too damaged and too controversial for Clinton to lend his weight to it. a. What has Bush's rejection of Kyoto have to do with Clinton not signing it? Why is Clinton the touchstone for signing the Kyoto accords? b. Clinton/Gore would have tried to accommodate some of the requirements of the treaty. Here are some details: The Clinton-Gore administration committed the U.S. to dramatically ration, in perpetuity, emission levels of principally naturally occurring gases like carbon dioxide and methane, at a 1980s profile washtimes.com Bush is actually weakening existing laws on pollution: Bush plan weakens pollution limits Existing clean air laws tougher than what he proposes Sunday July 7, 2002 By Ken Ward Jr. STAFF WRITER Last week, federal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Todd Whitman hiked through Great Smoky Mountains National Park to tout President Bush’s “Clear Skies” air pollution control proposal. At the same time, EPA officials across the country held similar events to promote the Bush plan. “The mid-Atlantic region would benefit greatly from the mandatory cuts in pollution offered by the Clear Skies proposal,” EPA Region III Administrator Donald S. Welsh said during a rooftop news conference in Philadelphia. But there is something that EPA officials aren’t saying: The Bush plan would actually cut power plant emissions less than they would be reduced by simply enforcing existing clean air laws. Further, the Bush plan would decrease emissions more slowly and less drastically than rival plans moving through Congress, according to government reports. “The administration’s strategy may well become a bait-and-switch scheme, claiming to clean up the air while weakening existing safeguards,” said Angela Ledford, director of Clear The Air, a national coalition of environmental groups. Across the country and in West Virginia, electric power plants — especially those that burn coal — are among the largest polluters. Utilities emit more carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury than any other single source. When EPA released its latest toxics release inventory in May, the top 10 polluters in West Virginia were all coal-fired power plants. The largest single polluter in the state was American Electric Power’s John E. Amos power plant outside of Charleston, with 14.6 million pounds of total air emissions. Recent studies have found that 30,000 people in the US die prematurely each year from health problems linked to power plant pollution. sundaygazettemail.com