{"id":185225,"date":"2011-09-05T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/05\/meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss-4\/"},"modified":"2011-09-05T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T02:44:00","slug":"meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/05\/meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What can I say, but, “Let’s see some windmill chords”<\/div>\n

Obama just killed the EPA’s attempt to make our air cleaner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama today directed EPA to drop its highly controversial effort to set, under the auspices of the Clean Air Act, more stringent standards for ground-level ozone pollution, a key constituent of smog. Obama cited the need to reduce regulatory burdens and uncertainty among the business community in light of the struggling economy.<\/p>\n

“With that in mind, and after careful consideration, I have requested that [EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson] withdraw the draft Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards at this time,” the President said.<\/p>\n

The Clean Air Act requires EPA to review the standards for ground-level ozone once every five years. The standards include a “primary” standard for protecting public health and a “secondary” one aimed at safeguarding crops and the environment.<\/p>\n

In 2008, the George W. Bush Administration set both standards at 75 ppb. But In January 2010, Jackson proposed tightening the standards to somewhere between 60 and 70 ppb, a range recommended by the agency’s scientific advisory committee.<\/p>\n

Obama noted that the current ozone standard is due for review and possible revision again in two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears that there is not a single bit of Bush administration malfeasance that Obama won’t go to the wall to support.<\/p>\n

What’s a few thousand dead kids and seniors over the prospect of a few million dollars in campaign contributions from polluters, after all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What can I say, but, “Let’s see some windmill chords” Obama just killed the EPA’s attempt to make our air cleaner: President Barack Obama today directed EPA to drop its highly controversial effort to set, under the auspices of the Clean Air Act, more stringent standards for ground-level ozone pollution, a key constituent of smog. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1079,969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-environment","category-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}