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Bond In Investing Savings Environmentalists and state advocates warned yesterday that many states could be forced to abandon plans to reduce unhealthy emissions from off-road machinery under a provision recently adopted by a Senate committee. The provision was designed to prevent California from toughening air pollution standards for lawn mowers and garden equipment, but it could affect other states and equipment as well, the advocates said.

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Municipal Bonds Investment The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the Bond amendment Sept. 4 as part of the fiscal 2004 spending bill for veterans, housing and environmental programs. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) have vowed to fight the amendment when the spending bill reaches the Senate floor this month. The Bush administration has remained neutral regarding the amendment by Bond, who heads the appropriations subcommittee that controls the Environmental Protection Agency's budget.

Bond Terms Trading "There are very far-reaching implications for what Bond is doing because he is making a fundamental change in the Clean Air Act -- and doing it through the back door of the budget process," said Frank O'Donnell, executive director of the Clean Air Trust. "It would not only stop California from setting standards for new lawn mowers, but stop ongoing efforts in a number of states to set up programs to retrofit existing systems to address clean-air standards."

Bond Debt High In Inside Bond said through a spokesman that he sponsored the amendment in hopes of preserving 2,000 jobs at two Briggs & Stratton plants in his state. The Milwaukee-based company has said it may move its plants overseas to reduce labor costs if the California rule takes effect.

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Bond Investing Municipal An EPA official said the agency is providing technical assistance to the Senate in refining the Bond amendment and suggested it might not apply to many states. "I think the scope of the provision is subject to question," said Ben Grumbles, EPA's acting associate administrator for congressional relations. "It's a gray area as to how broad its impact would be."

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Bond Explained Terms Trading "The amendment would not only overturn the basic tenets of the Clean Air Act and exempt states, but it can affect the health and welfare of potentially every person in the country," said S. William Becker, executive director of two associations of state and local air pollution officials.

Bond Business Investing Stock Annual emissions from non-road engines other than construction and agricultural equipment total 885,500 tons of nitrogen oxide, 2.7 million tons of hydrogen carbons and 309,425 tons of fine particles, according to a study by the air pollution officials' groups. Those emissions are major contributors to smog and to health problems such as asthma and heart and lung disease.

Bond Houston Houston By Eric Pianin
Washington Post - 9/19/2003

Topic: Air Pollution

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