Scientists group fears more pollution

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Bush administration plans to ease clean air rules for thousands of aging industrial plants might increase air pollution, the National Academy of Sciences said Friday.

Those Clean Air Act rules are under review by the Supreme Court, which is due to receive legal briefs on the administration's attempts to rewrite the rules in 2002 and 2003.

An NAS report requested by Congress said the possibility of emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide "increases in some locations and decreases in others. However, the magnitude of the changes and the number of geographic areas affected could not be assessed."


Those chemicals contribute to smog, acid rain, soot and other fine particles that lodge in people's lungs and cause asthma and other respiratory ailments.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060721/ap_on_go_ot/power_plant_pollution_1

[Delphinus]

1. One more nail in our coffin.

All the stories, just in the past two days, about the climate changes and here, still more scientists speak out to no avail.

[goforit]

2. What will the Sumpreme machine do w/this runaway tyrrannical cabal?

[KT2000]

3. and heart attacks too

what fools

[Barrett808]

4. Look on the bright side: More sulfates == more global dimming

Which is the only thing preventing the accelerating climate change from being much more destructive than it has been.