Posted by June Cheah Nicholls on June 02, 2002 at 07:33:22:
"Industries Always Tell the Whole Truth, and nothing but the truth" appears to be the motto projected by arden Defenders of the Gas /Fuel Industry.
It is coming to light now that the medical fraternity is in collusion with the pharmaceutical industry where research have refelected the interest of the payee, i.e the Pharmaceuticals, rather than in the interest of science.
But as always: The Fuel Industry never lies.
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Smog-Forming and Toxic Gases 'Consistently' Undercounted, Major Study Finds
By Bill Dawson
Center For Public Integrity
(HOUSTON, May 31) In a discovery with national implications, a group of government, academic and private researchers involved in a $20 million study of Houston's air quality have found that operators of petrochemical plants in the city's vast industrial complex have been significantly underestimating emissions of key air pollutants in required reports to regulators.
Smog-forming and toxic gases were "consistently" measured at levels three to 10 times greater -- and in some cases, "100 or more [times] greater" -- than local oil refineries and chemical plants reported releasing, according to a recent analysis of the Houston findings by federal, state and academic experts.
The findings suggest that the current smog reduction plan for the city, signed by then-Governor George W. Bush, might not be enough to solve Houston's chronic smog problem. And, coupled with similar findings in an earlier study in Philadelphia, the Houston readings are raising questions about whether petrochemical facilities nationwide, such as oil refineries and chemical manufacturing plants, are underestimating the real volumes of air pollution they release.
"My suspicion is that this is true of similar kinds of industries across the country," Peter Daum, a leading researcher involved in both the Houston and Philadelphia studies, told the Center for Public Integrity.
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=173&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0