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mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: shardian on October 25, 2007, 09:16:53 am ---So basically, logging companies could go unchecked and cut down trees they want as long as they claim they are unhealthy.
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Yeah...Invisible forests are "Healthy Forests". It's about as disingenuous as the "Clear Skies Initiative".
Whenever you hear these happy-happy-shiny-shiny names coming from this administration, I've always found it best to just assume the intent is just the opposite of the bills name.
More on the Clear Skies Initiative (for example):
"The law reduces air pollution controls, including those environmental protections of the Clean Air Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcement."
"Among other things, the Clear Skies Act:
* Allows 42 million more tons of pollution emitted than the EPA proposal.
* Weakens controls on mercury pollution levels compared to what would be achieved by enforcing the Clean Air Act stringently.
* Weakens the current cap on nitrogen oxide pollution levels from 1.25 million tons to 2.1 million tons, allowing 68 % more NOx pollution.
* Delays the improvement of sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution levels compared to the Clean Air Act requirements.
* Delays enforcement of smog-and-soot pollution standards until 2015."
But I digress. Facts are filthy things.
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