The American Lung Association urges the U.S. Senate to reject Senator Richard Lugar's efforts to block the cleanup of old, dirty coal-fired power plants. We are outraged to see this attack on the Clean Air Act included in the Lugar draft energy and climate change bill. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving ahead to curb the pollution that leads to deadly smog and soot that hangs over communities across the country and to dramatically cut mercury, arsenic, lead and other toxics that spew from these plants...
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