New Public Citizen Study: Top U.S.Air Polluters Are Closely Tied to Bush Fundraising, Pollution Policymaking Process
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The nations’ top polluters, as measured in terms of mercury, sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, are power plants owned by corporations that are tightly allied with the Bush administration in terms of both campaign contributions and pollution policymaking, according to a new study from two nonprofit and nonpartisan groups, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and Public Citizen. The report finds that sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide pollution both rose from 2002 to 2003, posing higher risks to Americans in terms of asthma attacks, lung ailments, premature death and, in the case of mercury, heightened risk of neurological damage to children.
You can see the full press release at
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1706
You can see the full report, America’s Dirtiest Power Plants: Plugged into the Bush Administration, at
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/dirtiest_plants2.pdf
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