Bush, in Michigan, Defends Pollution Plan

[UpInArms]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030915_1687.html

MONROE, Mich. Sept. 15 —

pRresident Bush defended his proposal to ease industrial pollution rules Monday, saying the regulations would fight dirty air while keeping electricity flowing and Americans working.

The proposed rules would make it easier for thousands of older power plants, refineries, factories, chemical plants and paper mills to make major upgrades without installing costly new anti-pollution controls.

The old rules "created too many hurdles, and that hurts the working people," he said at a coal-fired electric plant as he tried to strengthen his environmental image during a trip to Michigan and Pennsylvania, two states crucial to his re-election strategy.

Bush said his new rules would encourage plants like the Detroit Edison facility he toured to invest in new, environmentally friendly equipment without fear of costlier improvements ordered by the government, or years of litigation. And, citing last month's enormous power blackout, Bush said encouraging power companies to install new equipment would help improve the nation's power infrastructure.

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we just need to be able to see the air that we breathe (or not)

[Lefty48197]

1. Get your stupid ass out of Michigan

You have nothing in common with us. Get out and stay out. We're going to help fire you in 2004, just like we did your stupid daddy, face it.

[U2Shark]

2. Right on!

I could feel a chill, as I sensed his evil presence all the way up in East Lansing.

Those power plants will not do jack shit, unless they are made to do so. I mean, jeez, if they had to actually invest in their utility, they couldn't buy the naming rights to music venues, or spend millions on their advertising.

[modrepub]

3. What he means

We'll allow the oler plants with little or no controls to rebuild and keep spewing hundreds of thousands of tons of of pollutants instead of building the new plants which only emmit several thousands of tons of the same types of pollutants (for the same amount of power generation). What about these "clean coal" plants the industry touts. What a load of crap...

[robbedvoter]

4. Amazingly good title: pollution plan it is!

How comes they don't call it "Clean Air" no more?

[Mari333]

5. I smelled his stench from SW Michigan

get the f*ck out of my state, you pustulous maggot. We dont want you here, get lost Monkeyboy.

[peterh]

6. Call me a naïve fucking idealist…

But, I just for the life of me, can’t seem to be able to picture, even a fucking moron like the twit on the podium, expounding on the virtues of dirty air in relation to the economy. And yet, it seems to come off as passé to our media……ooops…I just fucking woke up.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Heres a guy talking about jobs as America loses 50,000 + every month

about 3 million lost their jobs since this twit been in the White House.

[dusty64]

8. Pollution plan, yeah that

about says it all. Just another repuke giveaway to corporate donors and the People and the Earth be damned.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

11. Yep. How much pollution does he plan on creating?

[Wednesdays]

9. Let me get this straight...

He wants to fight pollution by easing industrial pollution rules?

Did I miss something there?

[DemonFighterLives]

10. Just doublespeak

I don't remember what Clinton said, but something to the effect that there are jobs in cleaning our air and water and the jobs are here and not overseas. I am sure that these plants can clean up without too much expenditure. I mean we have bilions to send to Iraq.