Pollution rules have been restructured to take some of the bureaucracy out of modernizing old smokestacks.

This will aid and abet pollution reduction. If you look at the folks who support it - those who install pollution control devices and retrofit smokestacks - you know that they expect to get more business!

"A labor union whose workers install and maintain much of the equipment in coal-powered plants said it, too, felt the New Source Review has often held up energy efficiency improvements. “Facilities are discouraged from undertaking routine actions for fear of huge penalties or long delays or both,” the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers said in a letter to Whitman."



This is a way of painting Bush as an evil polluter when really it is a way to encourage industry to clean up its act, without endless bureaucratic hurdles and fines awaiting the company which endeavors to modeernize.

It is of major longterm benefit to industry and the consumer.

What is TOTALLY OMITTED from the debate, and the above linked MSNBC article, is how this allows company to expand and provide more power without paying huge government fines. This means CHEAPER power for all.

Cheaper power? Happy boilermaker unions? Anyone else besides me see that this was really a early Christmas gift to the American People?

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