All-terrain vehicles make slow progress. (Updates).

E | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

Many environmentalists, including the group Bluewater Network, were disappointed last September when the Bush administration issued what some considered to be weak emissions standards for personal watercraft--such as Jet Skis--snowmobiles and other all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). The Environmental Protection Agency says that phasing in the mandated 50 percent reduction in ATV emissions over a 10-year period will prevent the annual production of more than two million tons of pollution.

Public Lands Associate Katy Rexford of Bluewater says Bush should do more to ...

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