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...will allow some of the most egregious polluters (typically older, coal-fired power plants) to avoid installing mercury controls indefinitely. I might be inclined to cut the EPA some slack if the rule-writing process didn't smell so, well, fishy. But the Government Accountability Office and the EPA inspector general have criticized the agency for ignoring scientific evidence and allowing industry lobbyists too much input...
...film follows Norris’s struggles to start her business and to keep it running, despite maintenance problems and a pesky inspector who may be up to no good. At the same time, Norris becomes romantically entangled with electrician/pianist Joe (Djimon Hounstou...
...says the city's chief building inspector, Thorkild Kjaer. "They don't get it unless they meet the requirements for accessibility. Our aim is to make Arhus a city for all." In Berlin, one new structure looks set to remain difficult for the disabled. The Holocaust memorial - a 19,000-sq-m installation of 2,700 concrete blocks - officially opens on May 10, but wheelchair users will find their visits tricky. Many of the blocks are spaced just 95 cm apart along paths with gradients of up to 25%; many wheelchair users can't navigate the corners, and they...
...getting hard to find even a lousy bag of pretzels on an airline flight these days. But the penny-pinching spirit had yet to arrive in 2002 at the Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency in charge of air security. A draft of an upcoming Inspector General's report from the Department of Homeland Security charges that the agency's sleek Transportation Systems Operation Center, which opened in the Washington suburbs in 2003, was plagued by mismanagement and overspending. The report charges that some of the $500,000 listed under "equipment and tools" was spent on silk plants and decorative...
...Jackson incident gave the giant a hotfoot. Before that--despite Powell's reputation as Howard Stern's Inspector Javert--the group found the former chair unresponsive to its concerns. ("I don't want the government as my nanny," Powell said in 2001.) Winter, a lifelong Democrat who heads the PTC's Los Angeles and Alexandria offices (to Hollywood, he's the good cop to Bozell's bad cop), says, "We embarrass the FCC. We prove that they're not doing their job, and they are embarrassed...