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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:41:56 -0400
Subject: News Alert: Obama Pulls Back Proposal to Tighten Clean Air Rules
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Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Friday, September 2, 2011 -- 11:16 AM EDT
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Obama Pulls Back Proposal to Tighten Clean Air Rules
The Obama administration is abandoning its plan to immediately tighten
air quality rules nationwide to cut reduce emissions of smog-causing
chemicals after an intense lobbying campaign by industry, which said
the new rule would cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands
of jobs, officials said Friday.
The Environmental Protection Agency, following the recommendation of
its scientific advisers, had proposed lowering the so-called ozone
standard from that set by the Bush administration to a new stricter
standard that would have thrown hundreds of American counties out of
compliance with the Clean Air Act. It would have required a major
effort by state and local officials, as well as new emissions controls
by industries and agriculture across the country.
The more lenient Bush administration standard from 2006 will remain in
place until a scheduled reconsideration of acceptable pollution limits
in 2013, officials indicated Friday.
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