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EPA CHIEF WANTS LAX REGULATION TO COMBAT DIRTY AIR
Dirty Air Is Clean Air Says Whitman, Former Governor Of Polluted New Jersey Washington D.C. - (GNS) - EPA Chief Christine Whitman, the former Governor of New Jersey, called for new, relaxed regulations and standards governing power plant emissions yesterday at a hearing of The Senate Committee To Foul Up & Destroy The Clean Air Act. "Right now there are rules that require any power plant that plans an expansion to meet strict standards or face maximum fees. Well, the industry doesn't like that so I'm here to say it must be changed," she said. "Existing, aging, new and planned power plants thoughout the nation need to emit bad things into the air. If we don't let them, the people who run those plants will be mad and won't contribute to the politicians who need their money to get re-elected," she said. Her proposal was to combine all the rules the industry doesn't like into one rule, then eliminate that rule. "It's more efficient then eliminating all the rules one by one," she said, "and this government should be about efficiency." She characterized the Clean Air Act as a "feel good measure" no longer necessary because it worked. "The air is much cleaner than it was before the act was implemented. Now it's time for the pendulum to swing back," she said, citing the unwritten law of American politics. She denied that air pollution had any ill health effects. "Mercury and other chemicals, compounds, elements and shit that goes into the air has no unproven medical effects," she said. "I grew up in New Jersey and I can tell you dirty air is clean air," she said. |
