Pollution Rules

According to an August 30, Washington Post article, the Bush Administration has drafted new regulation that would permit power plants to emit more pollution, of course under the guise of emitting less and improving the environment. Are these guys brilliant or what!

This is a classic move by the Dubya crew, and now with the Katrina disaster it will clearly not get any media coverage.

According to the article: "Under the new standard, a modernized plant's total emissions could rise if the upgrade allowed it to operate longer hours. In court filings, the EPA estimated in 2002 that an hourly standard would allow eight plants in five states -- including Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia -- to generate legally as much as 100,000 tons a year of pollutants that would be illegal under the existing New Source Review rule. That equals about a third of their total emissions."

It's just brilliant, change the language of an obscure regulation and you get your corporate donors, all out of major public view.