* clear skies* lumbers back from the dead

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EPA chief Johnson resurrects Bush's " Clear Skies " plan

 

The Bush administration's " Clear Skies " air-pollution plan, seven months after

its seeming death in Congress, has clawed its way out of the ground and lumbered

back to life, moaning and twitching, bits of rotted flesh dropping from its

desiccated corpse. (Hey, it's almost Halloween -- sue us.) Speaking before the

Senate Environment Committee yesterday, U.S. EPA chief Stephen Johnson argued

that while other legislative plans on offer might save more lives, Clear Skies

is ... cheaper. No really, that was the argument: Johnson said the

administration's approach to curbing emissions from nitrogen oxides, sulfur

dioxide, and mercury would better balance costs to industry with projected

health benefits. The Clear Skies legislation was defeated by the Senate

Environment Committee on a 9-9 vote in March. Time will tell whether Johnson's

creepily utilitarian calculus will help break the logjam.

 

 

straight to the source: The New York Times, Michael Janofsky, 28 Oct 2005

 

 

 

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do

something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the

something that I can do.