well, i'm sure he would never lie, we can trust him to clean the air, right?

[Guest guest]

President Bush rejected a U.S. EPA proposal that would have gone much

further toward improving air quality than his pet Clean Skies

Initiative, according to administration documents. To cite just one

example, the EPA proposal would have limited sulfur dioxide emissions

to 2 million tons per year by 2010; by contrast, the (so-called)

Clear Skies plan would limit such emissions to 3 million tons per

year by 2018. The White House claimed the EPA plan was unrealistic,

but critics say it was rejected because it imposed too many

restrictions on the energy industry. Bush continues to maintain that

his plan would do more to improve air quality than the 1970 Clean Air

Act and 1990 amendments (signed by Bush, Sr.), which would be

replaced, but he has not yet released any details to back up that

claim, and it is widely disputed by environmentalists.

 

straight to the source: New York Times, Katharine Q. Seelye, 28 Apr

2002

<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/politics/28POLL.html>