Showing posts with label EPA Pollution Coal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EPA Pollution Coal. Show all posts

Apr 9, 2011

The EPA

The EPA is the last thing protecting you and I from big companies that pollute for profit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-cohen/back-to-the-future-the-co_b_846696.html

"After twenty years of delay from unrelenting coal and oil industry pressure, the EPA, under a Supreme Court-ordered deadline, proposed regulations to reduce the toxic pollutants -- poisons that are well known to cause cancer, childhood asthma, bronchitis, and cognitive damage to infants and fetuses."

"In the end,Reagan's deregulators only were able to delay -- not stop -- progress. Delays, unfortunately, that cost lives, sickened children and poisoned our air and water."