"The pot calling the kettle black"

( Abortion IS ABORTION   )  Renee Schoof and Halimah Abdullah | McClatchy Newspapers  WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Friday on a bill that's mushroomed recently into a plan to block the Obama administration's two main rules to clean up air pollution from power plants and change the way the Clean Air Act has worked for 40 years. House Republicans who crafted the bill say environmental regulations harm economic competitiveness. In recent days, they've added amendments that would stop new air-pollution regulations that operators of coal-fired electric plants have objected to for years. Environmental and health groups call it an extreme attack on the air pollution law.Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/21/124856/house-gop-bill-would-roll-back.html#storylink=cpy

US: Thousands die annually from power-plant Pollution from electric power plants in the United States shortens the lives of more than 30,000 people every year, according to a new report released here by environmental and health researchers.  The study concludes that soot, or fine particle air pollution, from the nation’s ageing coal-fired power plants is causing tens of thousands of asthma attacks, cardiac problems and upper and lower respiratory problems each year.