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...EPA estimates that an additional $300 billion to $500 billion will be needed to repair and upgrade wastewater systems...
...President Bush announced the Clear Skies Initiative, which would allow companies to trade pollution permits. The Sierra Club has said that the plan does not adequately regulate emissions of mercury and nitrogen oxide. The bill is still in committee, though the administration has bypassed Congress by using the EPA to enact some of its provisions. Kerry said that citizens should initiate a new wave of environmental activism. “What’s wrong is that the power of entrenched interests has been able to sideline the power and interests of the population at large,” Kerry...
...EPA has refused to comply with this clear statutory command. Instead, it has offered a laundry list of reasons not to regulate...
JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling that found that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by not limiting heat-trapping greenhouse gases in vehicle emissions; the court said the EPA has the power to regulate those pollutants...
...roots action, larger tectonic plates are shifting. Science is attacking the problem more aggressively than ever. So is industry. So are architects and lawmakers and urban planners. The world is awakened to the problem in a way it never has been before. Says Carol Browner, onetime administrator of the EPA: "It's a sea change from where we were on this issue." Here are the ways that sea is shifting the most...