The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices, " and the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of gas and diesel, he said.
And developing basic low-cost pollution technology for coal-fired power generation in the third world would probably get more bang for the pollution buck than just about anything else.
Not surprisingly, in the United States, asthma sufferers are often in low-income communities near major pollution sources, such as freeways or factories.
In too many American communities, low-income and minority families shoulder a disproportionate burden of pollution in the places where they live, work and learn.