• Overcast   • 64°   • Comment  Other views  Posted: April 21,
2013 - 12:25am  Whenever the federal government enacts new
standards to reduce pollution, we can count on affected
industries to complain loudly about the cost to them and
ultimately to their customers of implementing the changes. What
sometimes gets lost in the clamor are the health benefits of the
new standards.  That appears to be the case with the decision
last month by the environmental Protection Agency to move
forward with a rule requiring cleaner gasoline and lower-
pollution vehicles nationwide. The change amounts to one of the
most significant air pollution initiatives of President Barack
Obama’s administration.  Predictably, oil industry officials are
up in arms, claiming that the new regulations hamper their
ability to produce fuel and would add up to 9 cents to the cost
of a gallon of gas in some places.  The gist of the new rule is
that oil refiners will have to remove more of the sulfur from
the gasoline they produce. While sulfur, i