New Study Undermines Bush Anti-Regulation Doctrine

[NNadir]

"The Bush Administration mantra that "voluntary compliance" is a far better way to reduce pollution than "command and control" regulations received another setback this month with the release of a carefully documented study analyzing the volume of pollution from electric power plants.

Compiled by three organizations including New Jersey's largest utility, the Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.; the Natural Resourcs Defense Council (NRDC); and the Coalition for Environmentlly Responsible Economies (CERES), the report studied the environmental records of the nation's 100 largest electricity companies.

The study analyzed utility-industry emissions of four pollutants -- nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon dioxide (CO2), and mercury -- using data collected by the U.S. EPA and the Energy Information Administration from 1991 to 2002..."

"... It would seem there is little time to waste. The EPA has estimated that NOx and SO2 emissions from power plants still cause some 30,000 premature deaths each year..."

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000105.php

[brokensymmetry]

1. So Chimpy was wrong? Again?

Imagine that!

[blindpig]

2. They certainly are consistent

Pick a policy, any policy. Determine what will most please the donor base and run with it, science, reality, morality be damned.

[phantom power]

3. I'll never get it

Why would *anyone* ever think this would work? It's just stupid on the face of it: if corporations *wanted* to reduce pollution, they'd have already done it.