FYI - From Trust for America’s Health: Wellness and Prevention Health
Reform Digest - Today’s News (11/17/11) [source]
   The GOP and various polluting industries lobby groups are trying to
block this legislation, strip any funding or regulatory powers that
would support implementation, monitoring, and
enforcement of the Act  by the EPA or any cooperating agencies.  Some
of the false arguments the GOP and their polluting big money funders
use are along the lines that having Clean Air
would cost the economy too much (in their profits), would cost
American workers jobs because that would make American labor less
efficient and productive compared to competing nations
(so, throw in a little xenophobia, too).  I think this report really
exposes how maliciously false such arguments are.

  -- Alice Furumoto-Dawson, PhD/MPH

     A new analysis by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Trust for
America’s Health (TFAH) finds that four major rules of the Clean Air
Act will yield more than $82 billion
in Medicare, Medicaid and other health care savings for America through 2021.

Link to report:
http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files/EDF%20TFAH%20Report%20on%20CAA%20health%20care%20savings%20-%20FINAL.pdf

The report, Saving Lives and Reducing Health Care Costs: How Clean Air
Rules Benefit the Nation, examines how four new rules recently
proposed or finalized
by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are expected to reduce
air pollution and rates of pollution-related diseases, leading to
major savings in health care costs.

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