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Why does the federal government hate Kern County’s children? I ask because of the Environmental Protection (and I use that term loosely) Agency’s decision last week to keep California from requiring lower auto emissions by 2016. The general reasoning was the energy bill recently signed by President Bush will lower emissions by 2020 (assuming of course the EPA actually implements those standards, which this administration has shown no zeal for accomplishing). So, the feds said, California could just hold off. Really? Maybe EPA director Stephen Johnson, who overruled his own staff in denying California’s request, needs to spend next summer with his kids, or grandkids, in Arvin to get a firsthand feel for how urgent our air troubles really are. Consider this: 21.6 percent of Kern children ages 1 to 18 have asthma, compared to 16.1 percent of California children overall, according to a 2005 California Health Interview Survey. Nearly 22...
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