Will Our Elected Representatives Sacrifice 28000 Lives to Cut a Last-Minute ...
15 Months and next by prohibiting EPA from setting compliance deadlines any earlier than 5 years after the effective date of the standards. Current law requires that standards take effective no later than 3 years after their adoption. Both bills void existing standards for incinerators and boilers. S.1392 further eliminates any deadline to issue new standards, meaning the bill would allow final standards to be issued 5, 10 or even 20 years from now, and then the legislation eliminates any industry compliance deadlines.Even the minimum delay, of 3.5 years, would mean :
Up to 28,350 premature deaths ; Over 17,000 heart attacks; Nearly 19,000 hospital and emergency room visits; More than 1.2 million days of missed work; and Over 150,000 cases of asthma attacks.And for every additional year of delay, thousands more lives would be lost.
EPA has repeatedly rejected the notion that it needs more time
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