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. To leave, manage or join list: https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sdoh&A=1