An ugly scene today before a Senate subcommittee, as five Republican senators assailed any effort by the U.S. EPA to set tougher national health standards for deadly particle soot.
Ohio Senator George Voinovich, the ringleader of this effort to pressure EPA, suggested at one point that it might be "cheaper to buy everyone an air conditioner" rather than clean up the air.
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