"Report Sees Benefits of Clean Air Program"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration's plans for cutting air pollution could achieve less at certain plants than an existing program targeted by the White House, the National Academy of Sciences suggested Thursday in an interim report.

The study says the current program generally "provides more stringent emission limits for new and modified major sources" - coal-burning power plants - than would be provided by Bush's proposals.

The "new source review" program, which dates to 1977, requires utilities to install new pollution control equipment whenever major changes or maintenance would significantly increase emissions. The Bush administration has eased the program somewhat, but those changes are on hold pending a federal suit challenging them.

The White House also has been promoting legislation for cutting pollution from power plants, dubbed "Clear Skies," as well as an Environmental Protection Agency rule change that would accomplish much the same thing.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050114/D87JJH1G0.html

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