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Clean Air Act good for Montana businesses

A Virginia-based political group, Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, owners of a petroleum and manufacturing industry conglomerate, is telling Montana’s leaders in Congress how to vote on issues that affect our state’s economy and clean air.

AFP is lobbying hard, recently making false and misleading remarks about the EPA’s authority to implement the Clean Air Act in the Montana press. They falsely assert that the EPA aims to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from hospitals to lawn mowers, saying efforts to keep Montana’s air clean will hurt our economy.

The truth: The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the EPA to limit greenhouse gas pollution because, according to the Clean Air Act, this pollution "endangers public health and welfare." Using the best available control technology, the limits would apply to major sources of emissions, not hospitals, schools or homes.

By KATHLEEN HADLEY‌

Full Story: http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/article_bffd8f52-6998-57a6-902b-0c848771761f.html

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