I wrote: <much snippage> http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2003/11/we_603_05c.html > "3) An amendment written by Missouri Senator > Christopher Bond aims to strip California of its > authority to set its own air quality standards. >California recently adopted a new set of standards for > lawn and garden equipment that would require Briggs & > Stratton (an engine maker in, guess where? Missouri) > to make cleaner engines. The amendment would not only > roll back the California rule but also pre-empt the >right of other states to adopt California's standards, > a basic right under the Clean Air Act..." > > Re: that last, now there are states suing the EPA! > http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/11170000aaa0158a.upi&Sys=cmikelis&Fid=NATIONAL&Type=News&Filter=National%20News > "WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) - A coalition of 14 states > and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday > to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from > introducing new rules. > > "The legal action, filed in the District of Columbia, > claims the regulations would seriously weaken the > Clean Air Act, send more pollutants into the > atmosphere and damage public health.
In a semi-recent post I excerpted a number of articles about the negative health effects of air pollution; here is another, from this month's Scientific Sessions 2003 meeting of the American Heart Association: http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/76/90276.htm?printing=true "Air pollution brings on heart and asthma attacks -- even at "safe" levels. The findings come not from one but from three different studies. All link air pollution to death, disease, and/or injury... "...Every increase in air pollution kills a few more people, find Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Athens, Greece. For every one-unit increase in carbon monoxide, the researchers suggest, there are two or more extra deaths each day...A 10-unit increase in carbon monoxide ups heart and stroke deaths by 46%... "...Yves Cottin, MD, PhD, of the University of Dijon in Burgundy, France, and colleagues collected data on heart attacks that came on bad air days. Not everybody who got heart attacks on these days was a smoker. But pollution was more likely to trigger heart attacks in smokers than in non-smokers...Tiny particles floating in the air -- the kind of pollution mainly caused by diesel trucks -- were the worst offender. Even at levels below national standards, they increased the risk of heart attacks... [I think this is in the 2-5 micron range, but am not positive.] [This is a mouse study.] "...Nel's team first gave an allergen to mice to have them develop allergic asthma. This was followed in a few days by an aerosolized noseful of diesel particles. The mice immediately had an asthma attack. But a second study showed that mice bred to have airway trouble also got asthma from diesel particles -- even without the allergen. For their next study, the researchers will look at actual particles collected from Los Angeles air." Increased gaseous and particulate air pollution increase human morbidity and mortality. Period. Debbi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
