EPA Fails To Tighten Ozone Standards Enough To Protect Human Health, and Goes After Rewriting the Clean Air Act to Favor Polluters

Ah, Bush and his political appointee EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson are at it again, in cahoots with polluters.

They favor clogged lungs over a back-log of "clogged" polluters' lobbyists.

Yesterday, EPA announced that they tightened ozone standards far short of what their own scientists said is needed to protect public health.

It gets worse.

Stephen and George want to rewrite the Clean Air Act too, so polluters won't suffer.

Just the growing line of asthma, cardio-vascular, cancer, and emphysema sufferers. Let them pay for polluters actions with depleting health and pocketbooks, instead.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will be fighting this atrocity. As well as many environmental groups such as the American Lung Association.

In a statement, Boxer said,

"The Bush Administration would have us replace clean air standards driven by science with standards based on the interests of polluters."

In 2001, the Supreme Court, along with the average 1st grader, declared that the EPA's job is to protect human health, and not the polluter's pocketbook.

Yet...

Rewrite the Clean Air Act... they best not.

What a legacy Bush leaves you, me, and future generations: Commitment to dirty air and failure to try, at the very least, to protect human health.

Photo above was taken in July 2006, the day I experienced difficulty with my breathing while hiking on a smoggy day, the day I decided to chase clean air and write about my findings here. The black strip in background of photo is what the average Los Angeles resident breathes on a warm, smoggy day. The black part is diesel fine particulate matter, and the invisible burning stuff, that's ozone.