New Pollution Trading for Four States Guts Clean Air Act
Whitman Trading Plans Emerge as First EPA Policies

The  approval of "open market" air pollution trading authority for states,
the first initiative from Christine Todd Whitman at U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), violates the Clean Air Act to the detriment of
public health, according to complaints filed by PEER and the New Jersey
Chapter of the Sierra Club.  Last week, EPA formally proposed open market
trading for Michigan and New Hampshire.  Approval of similar programs is
pending for New Jersey and Illinois.

For the full story please visit: http://www.peer.org/press/149.html

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