It is a backwards approach. National Environmental Trust vice president John Stanton anticipates that Voinovich s effort to force a cost benefit analysis on EPA might provoke a showdown with newly installed EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, a former New Jersey governor who backs the tight standards. East Coast lawmakers like Whitman often complain that pollution from Midwestern power plants blows over their states and causes problems like acid rain. As Ohio s governor, Voinovich faced off over the same issue with Whitman at National Governors Association meetings. Stanton predicted that East Coast Republicans would block Voinovich s bill.
Public health has to come first.
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