Reply #33: I don't agree with this SMOG emissions reversal......

[FrenchieCat]

My understanding is that the EPA was going to do an interim change. The standards (last done by W in '08) are reviewed every 5 years. That will be 2013, so rather than change now and change again in 2 years, he requested the EPA wait until the normal review.

Fossil fuel Democrats in the Senate also failed us greatly by blocking the cap-and-trade bill and now, EPA regulation is what we have left to deal with climate change and move to clean energy.

the EPA's Cross State Air Pollution Rule hasn't been dialed back however:
Cutting pollution from power plants and industrial sources: EPA finalized additional Clean Air Act protections that will slash hundreds of thousands of tons of smokestack emissions that travel long distances through the air leading to soot and smog, threatening the health of hundreds of millions of Americans living downwind. The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule will reduce air pollution (including ozone) and is projected to prevent up to 34,000 deaths annually, producing annual estimated net benefits in excess of $100 billion. Twenty seven states in the eastern half of the country will work with power plants to cut air pollution under the rule, which leverages widely available, proven and cost-effective control technologies. Many power plants covered by the rule have already made substantial investments in clean air technologies to reduce SO2 and NOx emissions.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/02/cleaner-air-and-stronger-economy-record-success


And so I'm asking you what your candidate will do about that,
and what makes you so sure that it will happen as he/she promises?