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GOP to Top 9-11 Hijackers with TRAIN Act

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syadasti

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Apr 15, 2002
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These EPA regulations (delayed Ozone standards and now the TRAIN Act) the GOP want to eliminate would kill over ten times the number from 9-11 every year and cost the taxpayers billions.

Don't forget that during 9-11's cleanup the GOP's Christine Whitman (EPA Administrator then) told workers they were safe and condemned them agonizing, costly diseases and death to save money in the short term.

The GOP's message has been and is that slow agonizing diseases and death for dubious economic gains is OK - corporations have a greater right to flourish incrementally than you do to live. These GOP scum are far worse than terrorists.

http://www.pri.org/stories/politics-society/government/clean-air-regulations-could-save-us-billions-in-health-costs5862.html

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jwalke/gops_dirty_air_hit_list_sacrif.html

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R–Va.) recently announced his legislative priorities for the upcoming months and they consist of the same old reckless attacks on health and environmental safeguards for all Americans. Creating an apocalyptically-titled hit list of his “Top 10 Job-Destroying Regulations,” Rep. Cantor takes aim at an astonishing twelve clean air safeguards and 5 other labor, environmental and health care standards. But problems with basic arithmetic are the least of the concerns with this "top 10" list.

For every year that these twelve clean air safeguards are blocked by Rep. Cantor and his House GOP colleagues, the harmful consequences would be:

Up to 38,600 additional premature deaths;
Over 19,000 more heart attacks;
Over 205,000 additional asthma attacks;
Over 4 million more days when Americans will miss work or school due to the health hazards of air pollution; and
The elimination of Clean Air Act authority to reduce dangerous heat-trapping air pollution from the biggest industrial polluters.
This terrible health toll is the consequence of just a single year under the irresponsible House GOP agenda. The truth is, however, that the legislative attacks announced by Rep. Cantor block the various clean air safeguards for longer than one year, in most cases indefinitely.

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The Clean Air Act has been shown, time and time again over its 40-year history, to be one of our nation’s most successful pieces of legislation. The Act not only protects our families from dangerous air pollution, but offers an astonishing return on our nation’s investment in clean air. According to a peer-reviewed EPA study earlier this year, the Clean Air Act is expected to deliver $12 trillion in net economic benefits between 1990-2020. The specific standards Rep. Cantor decries as “job-killing” have been shown to have a net positive increase in job creation, with benefits to Americans that outweigh costs to polluting industries."
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