power plants

The past 24 hours have not been kind to King Coal.
First, plans to open new coal power plants in Michigan and Nevada were put on hold, and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) came out against a South Carolina plant, all due to environmental concerns and anticipated carbon emissions controls.
Now, the details of the compromise stimulus bill, [...]

Sen. Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has never been much a fan of Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator with a long record of putting Bush administration orthodoxy above the environment he’s charged to protect. But the California Democrat was particularly rankled after Johnson ruled last week that [...]

The Clean Air Act is one of the signature laws that gives regulatory authority to the Environmental Protection Agency.
But the Bush administration, especially under EPA head Stephen Johnson, has weakened ozone standards and ignored a U.S. Supreme Court order to use the law to regulate greenhouse gases that cause global warming.  Even though Johnson and [...]