Buggie,
They're doing it for you
Medical experts say that the fine particles and soot from power plants can be deadly, especially for people with heart and lung conditions. Bad air days also aggravate asthma and are even hazardous for healthy people who exercise outdoors.
The EPA said the new rule would prevent up to 34,000 premature deaths a year when it's phased in by 2014. It also estimated that there would be 15,000 fewer nonfatal heart attacks, 19,000 fewer cases of acute bronchitis and 400,000 fewer cases of worsened asthma each year. The numbers are compared to 2005, before the earlier rule went into effect.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-epa-air-million-americans.html
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EXPERTS!!..
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I am getting weary of EXPERTS..
Many EXPERTS have discredited themselves so badly that they are rarely taken seriously anymore..consider these:
1) In a capital punishment case in courtthe lawyers can line up 5 EXPERTS for either side. For the prosecution, 5 will say the perp is completely sane and should face punishment.. For the defense 5 EXPERTS will swear the perp is daffy as a duck and should escape punishment.
2) The East Anglia U. EXPERTS received huge grants to prove trhe "global warming" myth to be true. Worked fine, until they were proven to be lying and that they "cooked the books".
3) Years ago, a study came out with the EXPERTS saying saccharine is deadly. That was when most prople believed such studies were "scientific" in nature. Then people found out that the study was financed by " The Sugar Institute"..
4) More seemingly ridiculous decisions are coming out from studies employing just such EXPERTS. Very often, within a year or two other EXPERTS are challenging the conclusions of the previous EXPERTS..by presenting their own study.
It looks more and more like this: Huge grants are given by an advocacy group..very often by government agency (spending our tax money to work against our economic interests) to get an answer, which the EXPERTS know that agency wants.
Let's say, the " University of Buck-hungry" seeks and gets an EPA grant of 2.5 million dollars to develop a conclusion (which they know the EPA wants). If they work well (find correctly) more $$$ in grants will come to them..if not; the $$$$ dry up !
The EXPERTS know what is expected of them..."follow the money trail"..
Personally; I don't wonder but this is Obama keeping his promise to "bankrupt" the coal industry.
West Virginia, Pennsylvania and other coal producing residents take note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ