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...more than warn of the dire consequences of global warming." Even though the President did promise to come up with a "realistic" U.S. plan to slash emissions before December talks in Kyoto, Japan on a global warming treaty, environmentalists aren't holding their breath. While smog and soot are everyday problems American voters can easily relate to, the threat of coastal areas in Florida and Louisiana being submerged by rising seas is less immediate. And with the U.S.' energy-guzzling economy boasting record growth, the perceived danger becomes even more remote...
...China continue to pollute at will. The Administration plans to present its strategy at an international climate conference in Japan next year, but by that time, its agenda for climactic change could undergo some changes itself. One test case to watch -- new clean air regulations on smog and soot. TIME's Dick Thompson reports that while the Republican-dominated Congress, fresh from its recent disaster relief snafu, is in no mood to cast itself as environmental enemy no. 1, the White House does not want to tarnish its new image as the long-lost, Democratic friend of businesses with dogmatic...
...study compared the death rates of residents in six communities with the amount of fine particles such as soot...
Before a crowd of approximately 300 people, Browner discussed recent EPA proposals that call for a revision of the national ambient air quality standards for particulate matter and ground level ozone--better known as soot and smog...
Each year, there are 40,000 to 60,000 deaths due to soot, and the new standards would reduce that range to 20,000 to 40,000 deaths, she said