EPA and FDA Put Ecology Above Kids

Children with asthma have become a lachrymose concern for the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA and its supporters in the battle for costly new air quality standards. The President's Council of Economic Advisers has estimated that the stringent restrictions to reduce particulates and ground-level ozone would cost industry and consumers $60 billion a year, but EPA administrator Carol Browner, assuring that the regulations could reduce asthma attacks, has firmly declared, "When it comes to protecting our kids, I will not be swayed."