63 - Bush EPA Ignores Its Own Experts, Leaves Poison In The Air / Class Warfare: 400 Billionaires Vs. 57 Million American Families / Listener Email

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Jack Clark

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4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2006

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

True to form, the Bush EPA ignored its legislative mandate to formulate new rules regarding poisonous soot in the air. Then after a court ordered it to produce new rules, the Bush EPA ignored its own experts and left an old totally inadequate standard in place. Thousands will die as a result.The 400 richest Americans, all billionaires, have as much wealth as half the US population, 57 million

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 63 of Blast the Right.
0:24.2	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:27.8	Today in the main segment we'll discuss how the right wing is perfectly happy to poison
0:37.7	the air, all of us must breathe.
0:40.5	Next I'll give you a quick blast with an amazing wealth and equality statistic that's perfect
0:46.4	to throw in the face of your friendly vocal right-winger.
0:49.7	To close we'll go over some listener email.
0:52.4	There's even some new bumper music, let's get right into it.
0:57.7	Here's the lead paragraph in a recent story about the right wing's seeming effort to
1:03.0	poison us all.
1:04.8	Quote.
1:05.8	The Environmental Protection Agency's administrator on Thursday rejected the recommendations
1:11.2	of his staff and an unusual public plea from independent science advisors choosing instead
1:18.2	to tighten only one of two standards regulating the amount of lethal particles of soot in
1:23.9	the air.
1:25.2	Close quote.
1:26.5	A bit of background so you can understand the full gravity of this.
1:30.8	My sources for this segment are the New York Times, MedicalNewsToday.com, PBS.org, and
1:39.7	the Associated Press.
1:42.6	Soot particles, formerly known as fine particulate matter, are less than one-thirty if the diameter
1:50.2	of a human hair.
1:52.1	These minute particles come from power plants, from heavy industry, and from automobile
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