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Bush Administration Set to Change Environmental Laws
The Bush Administration has announced that within the next few months a rewrite of the three decade old document protecting environmental areas against gas and oil drilling will be changed while reshaping the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).When asked about whether the American people would approve of such action the Bush Administration stated that "The election was a validation of the phil..

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Pollution is the release of environmental contaminants. The U.S., Russia, Mexico, China and Japan are the world leaders in air pollution emissions; however, Canada is the number two country on a per capita basis. The major forms of pollution include:

Argu ably the principal source of air pollutants worldwide is motor vehicle emissions, although many other sources have been found to contribute to the ever growing problem. While the EU has adopted stringent emissions controls, the U.S. has not been as assertive in this field; nevertheless, the U.S. is still the leading contributor to mobile source air emissions merely due to the very high number of vehicle miles traveled per capita.


   

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