Court asked to rescind EPA decision allowing field burning
16th Nov 2006, 11:23 GMT
SEATTLE (AP) -- The dense plumes of smoke that arise when grass-seed farmers in Idaho burn their fields cause asthma in children, reduce visibility on highways and actually kill people, but the Environmental Protection Agency did not study those effects before changing a federal rule to allow such fires, a lawyer for a clean-air group told judges Wednesday....
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