IDEM top official to EPA: Focus on air pollution, not climate change

[kas125]

IDEM top official to EPA: Focus on air pollution, not climate change

September 20, 2010
BY GITTE LAASBY, [phone]

Indiana's top environmental official is still not buying into climate change or that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should work to halt it. Environmentalists say he's "getting in the way of science" and going against EPA's mission to protect public health.

In a letter to the EPA about EPA's goals for 2011-2015, Indiana Department of Environmental Management Commissioner Tom Easterly told EPA to focus more on reducing regular air pollution than on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

"Indiana suggests that the Goal 'Taking Action on Climate Change and Improving Air Quality' be split into two separate goals and that much more emphasis should be placed on Improving Air Quality than on Taking Action on Climate Change," Easterly wrote.

Environmentalists said Easterly doesn't want to take action on either climate change or regular air pollution.

con't at:
http://www.post-trib.com/news/2726122,easterlyghg0920.article

[LiberalFighter]

1. What are his qualifications in environmental issues?

Absolutely not a damn thing! No degree or education in the field.

[plantwomyn]

2. Can anyone say dispersants?

Target what is visible, then put out the propaganda that they are cleaning up pollution. No matter that CO2 is an invisible killer, no matter that mercury is so prevalent that you can't eat the fish from out streams and lake, you can't see it. Out of sight out of mind.