Gore to Unveil Plan to De-Smog Parks
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Vice President Al Gore will use Earth Day to announce regulations to clean up the air over smoggy federal parks, touting his environmental record as a strength as he pursues the presidency. In a trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains, Gore will announce a federal push to bring air quality over national parks--some of which now choke in summer smog--back to pristine preindustrial levels by 2064.
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