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...rebut its critics, the Administration is emphasizing its policies to clean the air and slow global warming. Bush plans to spend Earth Day in the Adirondacks, trumpeting policies that don't fit the environmentalists' caricature of him--such as EPA's decision to make General Electric pay almost $500 million to clean up the Hudson River. His defenders argue that environmentalists tend to be a misanthropic lot. "For many people, you can never do enough," EPA boss Christie Whitman told TIME. Indeed, the League of Conservation Voters, which in February gave Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney a grade...
...farmland conservation--Bush's novel, market-driven approaches may prove efficient and effective in ways that some environmentalists seem unable to see. And there has been more continuity with the previous White House than either the Clinton-bashing Bush team or the Bush-hating environmentalists like to admit. EPA's Whitman, for instance, upheld the standard for arsenic in drinking water that the Clinton Administration adopted in its last hours in office (although she did so only after a public outcry). With less fanfare, she also let stand a little-known but sweeping Clinton-era regulation making diesel fuel considerably...
Sounds good. But the key to such a plan is where you set the pollution caps. Sources say the EPA sent a proposal to the White House with caps nearly twice as stringent as the ones included in Bush's Clear Skies plan. That's because any trading system that does away with existing regulations, as Clear Skies would, has potentially deadly side effects. It could undermine the EPA's long fight to bring many of the nation's oldest, dirtiest power plants into compliance with current law. And since the caps would be nationwide--letting a polluter...
...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized Harvard last week as one of the most commuter-friendly employers in New England under a new EPA program...
Although Harvard had already met many of the program’s requirements when it was approached by the EPA last year, the university had to make minor adjustments in order to qualify under the CCLI...