Legislators proposed that a succession amendment include provisions to lengthen the terms of state legislators in order to maintain a balance of power between the executive and legislative branches; Wilkinson insisted that the General Assembly pass a "clean" succession amendment, free from any other provisions that might diminish the amendment's chances of being approved by the state's voters.
The clean air amendment is the handiwork of Senator Christopher Bond, who is doing the bidding of Briggs & Stratton, a big maker of lawn and garden equipment that has two plants in his home state, Missouri.
"It sounds like the coalition of the willing is the coalition of the paid — they're willing to be paid," said Mr. Waxman, who later in the day introduced what he called a "clean contracting" amendment to a defense authorization bill being debated on the House floor.
But in the past few days, 4 anti-clean air amendments have failed miserably in the Senate, 34 senators have declared their support for the Clean Air Act, and now some members of the GOP are indicating they might give some ground on the dirty policy riders they've attached to the spending bill -- policy riders that don't save a single red cent.
These standards are set at levels "requisite to protect public health" with "an adequate margin of safety" [U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) 1990 §109(b)(1)].
Initially, we reviewed the statutory language of Title I of the 1990 (CAAA)—the current, primary statute for setting air quality standards (U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments 1990).
Title I of the CAAA contains the current mandate for setting regulatory standards on air pollution (U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments 1990).
The CAA further requires the U.S. EPA to consider sensitive subpopulations and the increased risk they bear as a result of exposure to criteria air pollutants [U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments 1990 §108(f)(1)(C)].
The U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 regulate 187 hazardous air pollutants (air toxics) that are associated with a wide variety of adverse health effects, including cancer, neurologic effects, reproductive effects, and developmental effects [ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) 2000].
The first of these, the Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter (U.S. EPA 2004a) issued by the U.S. EPA's Office of Research and Development, is intended to "accurately reflect the latest scientific knowledge useful in indicating the kind and extent of identifiable effects on public health or welfare" (U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments 1990; U.S. EPA 2004a).
