League of Conservation Voters president Gene Karpinski said in a statement: "The Obama administration is caving to big polluters at the expense of protecting the air we breathe. This is a huge win for corporate polluters and huge loss for public health."
There will be a "reconsideration of the ozone standard in 2013," Mr. Obama said by which time he will be either out of the Oval Office, or back in it and no doubt, backtracking on promises yet again.
We don't have enough laws to protect the sick, but we have enough good people with conscience, spirit and bravery to do the right thing. Even when political leaders fail us.
* More CDC facts: Prevalence among children (persons aged <18 years) was 9.6%, and was highest among poor children (13.5%) and among non-Hispanic black children (17.0%). Prevalence among adults was 7.7%, and was greatest in women (9.7%) and in adults who were poor (10.6%). More uninsured persons with asthma than insured could not afford to buy prescription medications (40.3% versus 11.5%), and fewer uninsured persons reported seeing or talking with a primary-care physician (58.8% versus 85.6%) or specialist (19.5% versus 36.9%). Only about one third of children or adults were using long-term control medicine such as inhaled corticosteroids at the time of the survey.
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