EPA rule resets limits on soot, smog

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/10/clean.air.ap/index.html

Committee deadlocked on legislation favored by president
Thursday, March 10, 2005 Posted: 12:49 PM EST (1749 GMT)



Stephen Johnson is President Bush's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency.




WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration set new limits on smog and soot pollution Thursday with the aim of benefiting tens of millions of people who live downwind of the dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the East, South and Midwest.

The new regulation covers 28 states, mostly east of the Mississippi River, and the District of Columbia. It requires most of them to cut smog-forming nitrogen oxides and soot-producing sulfur dioxide that can drift by wind long distances across state lines, the Environmental Protection Agency said.

EPA's new "Clean Air Interstate Rule" requires phased-in reductions in the volume of air pollution that states can allow. By 2015, the nation's pollution from nitrogen oxides would be reduced by 61 percent below 2003 levels. Sulfur dioxide pollution would be reduced by 73 percent.

"CAIR will result in the largest pollution reductions and health benefits of any air rule in more than a decade," said Stephen Johnson, EPA's acting administrator and President Bush's nominee to be the full-time agency chief. "The action we are taking will require all 28 states to be good neighbors, helping states downwind by controlling airborne emissions at their source."


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2015 2015 2015 !!!

these people will be dead by that time!!!