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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Twisted Mettle Bush admin appeals ruling on mercury cap-and-trade plan		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 7:00 AM on 27 Mar 2008 The Bush administration has appealed a court ruling that struck down the U.S. EPA's controversial mercury cap-and-trade plan. The earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found the EPA violated the Clean Air Act when it enacted the mercury rule in 2005. The cap-and-trade system allowed dirtier power plants to buy the right to pollute from cleaner ones; 17 sta ...
Topics: litigation, news, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Cap 'n' Crunched Bush's controversial mercury rule for power plants struck down by federal court		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:57 AM on 08 Feb 2008 Bad news for the Bush administration: A federal appeals court on Friday struck down a U.S. EPA rule that would have let coal-fired power plants trade the right to emit mercury, a neurotoxin that contaminates waterways, accumulates in fish, and has been linked to nerve and brain damage, particularly in children. Environmentalists and public health advocates, among oth ...
Topics: litigation, news, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Angrier By the Dozen EPA sued by 12 states over relaxed toxic-chemical rule		29 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 6:07 AM on 29 Nov 2007 The U.S. EPA's moves to relax the nation's toxics reporting rule will not go unchallenged. Twelve states have announced they're suing the agency over rule changes to the Toxics Release Inventory that allow companies to file less-informative reports and escape reporting if they release less than 5,000 pounds of toxic chemicals, up from the previous threshold, set under President Reagan, o ...
Topics: litigation, news, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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