Md. Governor Signs Air Pollution Bill

[Eugene]

Md. Governor Signs Air Pollution Bill

By KRISTEN WYATT
The Associated Press
Friday, April 7, 2006; 4:51 AM

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Gov. Robert Ehrlich unexpectedly signed into law a bill requiring
cleanups at power plants, after saying last year that Maryland did not need such a law.

The bill signed into law Thursday requires coal-fired power plants in parts of Maryland
to dramatically reduce emissions of four pollutants, including mercury. It also calls
for Maryland to join seven northeastern states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 10 percent by 2019.

Ehrlich signed the measure without telling Democratic lawmakers who worked on the bill,
which they perceived as a snub. The governor had been scheduled to sign a different bill
making Maryland one of four states that fund embryonic stem cell research, but the pollution
signing was not publicized.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/07/AR2006040700284.html

This related Baltimore Sun article, Clean air, stem cell bills signed, details
how Erlich is now trying to take credit for two laws he opposed.

[Dead_Parrot]

1. Well, Ehrlich is a weasel

and I don't thinks it's nearly enough, but it's a law and will help a little. I think this is good news... :shrug:

[darkmaestro019]

3. Hella better than nothing. I don't know enough to know if he's a weasel

but a broken clock is right twice a day, I guess. : )

Air doesn't stay over the state where the laws affect it, so I'm pretty glad when anyone anywhere does ANYTHING to try to, yanno, PRESERVE the only air supply we all have. Little steps cover big ground over time.

[darkmaestro019]

2. You know, for all that CA is supposed to be where progress

begins, in the sense of what I'd call liberal-progressiveness, I'm really getting very impressed with New England/East Coast. It seems that a very big concentration of our country's most intelligent people are there.

We'll keep that in mind if we ever get out of the soulsucking void that OH is becoming--though even here, there's rumbling in the whisperstream of serious disillusionment and discontent...

:applause: for Gov. Ehrlich and MD, and New England in general for having the sense to behave like we're in the 21st century and not the 11th.