President Obama Decides Americans’ Lungs Are Less Important Than Polluting Corporations and Eric Cantor

by Gary Kopycinski on September 2, 2011

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WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 2, 2011. President Obama today announced he is blocking standards that would have protected Americans from excessive ground-level ozone pollution, which is the primary constituent of smog and which worsens bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.