Blowing smoke on warming, clean air
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Sunday, October 25, 2009 | The Boston Globe
“…Corporate hot air may be killing us in the fight for clean air. For evidence, let us go back 20 years, when the Edison Electric Institute, the lobbyist for America’s electric companies, opposed clean air amendments, saying the retooling of plants would be ‘unnecessarily expensive’. Dave Swanson, an institute senior vice president, claimed the provisions to fight acid rain would cost so much that ‘the total cost to consumers from enactment to 2010 could reach nearly $120 billion’….”….BS
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