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To: LindyBill who wrote (90838)	12/16/2004 9:42:26 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793838

<<This is too good (and too typical).>> Yep, this is too good and too typical. << The story belies the impression that the editorial board of the NY Times is trying to create--that the Bush adinistation has a poor record on environmental protection.>> LOLOLOL. From the USA Today reference: "The average level of a deadly form of air pollution dropped in the USA from 1999 to 2003 as new pollution controls made strides in battling the nation's air quality problem, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday." Note the years 1999 to 2003. <<The EPA says one reason for the improvement is a federal program aimed at cleaning up air pollution from power plants. The program was designed to cut emissions that create acid rain, but it had the extra benefit of cutting the amount of particulate in the air.>> From the EPA: "Phases and Reductions Title IV of the Clean Air Act set a goal of reducing annual SO2 emissions by 10 million tons below 1980 levels. To achieve these reductions, the law required a two-phase tightening of the restrictions placed on fossil fuel-fired power plants. Phase I began in 1995 and affected 263 units at 110 mostly coal-burning electric utility plants located in 21 eastern and midwestern states. An additional 182 units joined Phase I of the program as substitution or compensating units, bringing the total of Phase I affected units to 445. Emissions data indicate that 1995 SO2 emissions at these units nationwide were reduced by almost 40% below their required level. Phase II, which began in the year 2000, tightened the annual emissions limits imposed on these large, higher emitting plants and also set restrictions on smaller, cleaner plants fired by coal, oil, and gas, encompassing over 2,000 units in all. The program affects existing utility units serving generators with an output capacity of greater than 25 megawatts and all new utility units. The Act also called for a 2 million ton reduction in NOx emissions by the year 2000. A significant portion of this reduction has been achieved by coal-fired utility boilers that will be required to install low NOx burner technologies and to meet new emissions standards." Yep, the Times was surely remiss in failing to give Bush credit for the results Title IV. <<The Times seems to think that its readers don't need all the facts; just those which "fit"-- fit their editorial agenda. >> Shame on Bob Kohn for throwing up a softball like that.