The Bush Administration's Air Pollution Plan

Electric power plants are the single largest industrial source of some of the worst air pollutants. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that more than 120 million Americans live in areas where the air is unhealthy. Yet the Bush administration's air pollution plan would gut existing health protections and do nothing to curb global warming.

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