States Hope to Force Power Plant Improvements

News and Opinion for Democrats Against Bush -- Part II

States Hope to Force Power Plant Improvements

New York Times November 9, 2003

States Planning Their Own Suits on Power Plants

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
and CHRISTOPHER DREW

The complete article is currently (3/29/04) available on the New York Times website at-- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/national/09POLL.html?ex=1080795600&en=6b0ec6e4b36ac2bd&ei=5070 [found through a Google search by article title on the date above]

Opening words--

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 — The attorneys general of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut say they are ready to open a new round of litigation to force power plants to make billions of dollars of pollution-control improvements after a decision by the Bush administration to abandon more than 50 investigations into possible violations of the Clean Air Act.

The state officials said they would move quickly to fill some of the void left by the Environmental Protection Agency, which decided this week to drop the investigations at the old coal-fired plants, a major source of the air pollution that drifts over the Northeast. ...

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