Bush Plan Hinders Power Plant Cleanups
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President Bush's push to revise the Clean Air Act sometimes has hindered enforcement of the existing law for cleaning up coal-fired power plants, the Justice Department's top environmental lawyer said Tuesday.
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Governors of 20 US states must slash levels of tiny particles spewed by power plants, cars and other sources by 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday.
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A Pennsylvania senator vowed Tuesday to block re-nomination of a government energy board chief until the Bush administration scales back its push for new high-voltage power lines in his state.
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President Bush will make air pollution a top priority in Congress early next year, starting with "an aggressive push" to build support for his pollution-cutting plan, senior administration officials said Saturday.
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While arguing in court that states are free to enact tougher mercury controls from power plants, the Bush administration pressured dozens of states to accept a scheme that would let some plants evade cleaning up their pollution, government documents show.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants an exemption to proposed clean-air rules so that it doesn&#39;t have to replace toxic soot-producing diesel equipment with cleaner-burning models.
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By PETE YOST  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration Monday in an environmental lawsuit, allowing a company to seek recovery of some of its costs for voluntarily cleaning up a hazardous site.
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George Bush's State of the Union Address included a $2 billion fund dedicated to helping developing countries like China produce cleaner energy, but it didn't come close to addressing the scale of the global energy crisis.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 7--Local leaders are becoming frustrated with the ongoing efforts to devise a plan to clean up ozone in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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A Senate blueprint for tackling global warming would require power plants and vehicles to reduce their greenhouse gases by 70 percent. A chief sponsor said President Bush's approach of voluntary action will not meet the goal.
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The Bush administration said Friday it will allow developers to complete construction and other projects even after belated discoveries that the work could endanger protected species.
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A federal appeals court struck down the Bush administration approach to limiting mercury emissions by power plants Friday, ruling that the government failed to adequately consider the policy's effect on public health and the environment.
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WHEEZE: Mayors and economic development officials say a growing number of businesses are not inclined to expand or open new plants in areas cited by the Environmental Protection Agency as "non-attainment zones," with too much smog-causing ozone or microscopic soot.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald Feb. 11--Coal, the source of half of the nation's power, has a dirty reputation with environmentalists. But a plant that Tampa Electric Co.
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DENVER - A plan by Colorado&#39;s largest utility to build a $1.3 billion coal-fired power plant in Pueblo is facing strong opposition from people who say both environmental and financial concerns make the facility a bad idea.
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TOPEKA -- More than five months after the state environmental agency closed the public comment period on the proposed coal-fired power project in western Kansas, no decision's come yet on whether to allow it.
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Calling nuclear power an overregulated industry that needs a jump-start from Washington, President Bush on Wednesday pitched his plan to expand nuclear power generation by dealing with radioactive waste, lessening regulations and reviving nuclear fuel processing.