Maryland's Governor takes on Bush's anti-environment plan.

'Clear Skies'? Not From Bush Clear Skies'? Not From Bush

To the Editor:

Perhaps it was fitting that it was a Code Red air-quality day in Maryland when I read about President Bush's plans to clear the way for corporate polluters to continue their destructive practices ("Bush Energy Proposal Seeks to `Clear Skies' by 2018," news article, July 30).

In the wake of corporate accounting scandals that have cost working families their life savings, Mr. Bush is offering an industry-friendly emissions plan that can cost families their health. This proposal affords the dirtiest power plant polluters the opportunity to avoid reducing their filthy emissions simply by purchasing credits from cleaner power plants. Thus they can avoid the cost of updating their plants with the most effective pollution control technology.

While Mr. Bush may believe in a "market-based system that guarantees results," the majority of Americans have seen too often that the results are guaranteed not to be good for them.
PARRIS N. GLENDENING
Governor
Annapolis, Md., Aug. 1, 2002