Bush's Polution Charter

Here it comes (while everyone is focusing on the Middle East and the Ten Commandments):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1028090,00.html


The Bush administration plans to open a huge loophole in America's air pollution laws, allowing an estimated 17,000 outdated power stations and factories to increase their carbon emissions with impunity.

Critics of draft regulations due to be unveiled by the US environmental protection agency next week say they amount to a death knell for the Clean Air Act, the centrepiece of US regulation.

The rules could represent the biggest defeat for American environmentalists since the Bush administration abandoned the Kyoto Treaty on global warming two years ago. But the energy industry welcomed them, saying they were essential for maintaining coal-fired power stations.


This should be another "nail in the coffin."