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Some ot the blame can certainly be laid on the federal government, which is charged with regulating the quality of our air. Despite President Bush’s trumpeting of his support for the Clean Air Act, officials from federal agencies, including the National Park Service and the Forest Service, charge that their agencies have been ordered to stop submitting unfavorable reviews of pending projects — including those co-generation facilities in Virginia which, according to impact studies, will further degrade the quality of the Commonwealth’s air.
If those officials are correct, the Clean Air president, through his minions, has muzzled the federal agencies responsible for enforcing those regulations and limiting the addition of new pollution sources. If true, the Bush Administration’s actions are unconscionable hypocrisy.
But we share the blame. Our society has a seemingly limitless appetite for energy to power our cars, hair dryers, CD players and Nintendos. That energy requires production facilities, whether they are coal or oil-fired or nuclear powered.
As long as our society equates light with enlightenment, the consequences will include a steadily thickening blanket of stifling smog that may signal the extinction of some of our nation’s most precious natural resources — including Shenandoah National Park.
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