Conservation groups will go before the state Pollution Control and Ecology Commission tomorrow to argue for a change in definition of air contaminants to recognize the harmful effects of carbon dioxide.
The Arkansas polluters lobby will be there in hysterical opposition. Here’s the statement they’ll release to the media tomorrow. Clean air costs money is their essential howl.
And here is the response from the conservation groups.
Ernie Dumas tells you everything you need to know on this subject, including the background on the state commission’s historically lukewarm stance on environmental protection. (What? You thought that was its mission and not protecting industry?) As Dumas notes: “You would think that would be a no-brainer since every scientist in the world who didn’t get his degree from a Bible college acknowledges CO2 to be the most perilous of the greenhouse gases …”