Bush Pushes His Air-Pollution Initiative ("Clear Skies")

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush

4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) gathered business and labor leaders, local officials and others at the White House Tuesday as part of a push to get Congress to pass his air-pollution initiative, which environmentalists have criticized.

"By taking this action, and I urge Congress to take the action, we'll have more affordable energy, more jobs and cleaner skies," said the president, ..."The legislation on the books is counterproductive. We've got to change it with good, common-sense legislation."

His proposal calls for a cap-and-trade system.

Utilities that exceeded the limits could purchase credits from other energy producers whose emissions are lower and who choose to sell their ability to pollute.

"Even though it would be a reduction, it is significantly less than the Clean Air Act would require over time," said the National Audubon Society's Bob Perciasepe, former EPA assistant administrator for air during the Clinton administration. "And it doesn't do anything about carbon dioxide."


Eric Schaeffer, director of the Environmental Integrity Project and former chief of civil enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites), called Clear Skies a "sham"....If a certain plant wants to avoid controls and "keep on showering its neighbors with sulfur dioxide," it can do so under Clear Skies by buying emission credits from a clean plant a thousand miles away.

[bif]

1. Clear Skies=Dirty Skies

Another lie. So what's new? More Orwellian double-speak.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Clear skies = "The Sky's the limit"

That's what they really mean.

[underpants]

4. The skies are clear for you to build your smoke stacks

Now it wasn't cheap to write this policy.......

Very funny BC

[underpants]

3. But it's COMMON SENSE

Didn't you read that our fearless leader said that to a group of business and industry leaders (those enviros must have been scared to hear this common sense TRUTH). I mean he can't lie about EVERYTHING can he?

Hold it checking Franken and Conason's books......yep yep turns out they can.

[ozymandius]

5. This is the reality.

Bush* has already attempted to gut the Clean Air Act by redefining parameters of measuring pollution. Now he wants to create another commodities market of trading pollution credits so that plants will not need to (a) upgrade to more efficient systems; (b) install pollution controls when they upgrade; (c) never need to worry about burning dirty sulfur-rich fuel and (d) ignore the cost of production and, eventually, the cost to customers by maintaining the status-quo energy production and distribution systems.

This is another form of corporate welfare.

[jamesinca]

6. Can I take that and my $1.75

Good to see you out here Ozymandius. Let us not forget that his policy does not address CO2, which the WH declared not a pollutant.

[Nottingham]

7. Cough! Cough!....Hack! Spit!! Kerplunk! 9/11 Air was Clean enough

:puke: Bush just keeps on Lying & Lying

and making more Lies!