Word: emissionsã
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...allows some smokestacks and machines to increase their emissions as long as the manufacturing plant overall remains below limits. In addition, changes to the Emissions Calculation Test Methodology will allow factories to use the highest-polluting 24-month period in the preceding decade as a measure of their actual emissions??making it easy to portray future emissions as a reduction, even if they are actually an increase from current levels...
...much-touted “Clean Skies” initiative confirms the suspicions one should rightly have about the environmental and energy policies of the Bush administration. For instance, many are unaware that the plan—which proudly boasts of a cap to noxious sulfur dioxide emissions??actually rolls back previous restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the supposed cap is estimated by environmental groups to be too high to make any meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless cap were not enough to reject...