CBS Evening News - 2002-11-22
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[0:01] Tonight's headlines, President Bush
[0:03] orders new rules for rolling back the
[0:05] nation's air pollution controls. CBS
[0:08] exclusive, Ford's fight over police car
[0:11] safety rolls on.
[0:13] Fascinating new audio of the day a
[0:15] president died. Also tonight, CBS goes
[0:18] undercover to show you what's behind a
[0:21] dramatic increase in drunken driving
[0:23] deaths.
[0:24] Meet the new doctors, low-cost care
[0:27] without insurance hassles. And the last
[0:30] laugh,
[0:31] the final word on the news of the week.
[0:40] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:43] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:45] headquarters in New York.
[0:47] Good evening. With President Bush
[0:49] overseas today talking up his Iraq
[0:51] policy, a major controversy broke out
[0:54] here at home over the president's
[0:55] domestic policy. President Bush has
[0:58] ordered new regulations and they've just
[1:00] been put out by the Environmental Agency
[1:02] that would reduce clean air standards
[1:05] for old power plants, refineries, and
[1:07] factories. CBS News correspondent Bob
[1:10] Orr has our report.
[1:12] The rollback of clean air rules is a
[1:14] bonanza for hundreds of the nation's
[1:16] oldest and dirtiest power plants. Under
[1:18] the change, those plants will be allowed
[1:20] to pump out more power and consequently
[1:22] more smokestack emissions without having
[1:24] to install costly anti-pollution
[1:26] equipment. The Bush administration
[1:28] insists the move will encourage older
[1:30] power plants to invest in new equipment
[1:32] that ultimately will make them more
[1:34] efficient.
[1:34] We will actually be making the
[1:36] environment cleaner with the regulatory
[1:38] improvements that we're making today.
[1:40] But critics accuse the ad