EPA Chief Defends Plan to Clean Up Power Plants
From Times Wire Reports
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency rejected environmentalists’ complaints that an administration proposal to cut power plant pollution is a setback for cleaner air.
EPA Administrator Christie Whitman said that President Bush’s proposal is “the most aggressive initiative to cut air pollution in a generation.”
The recently announced plan has been sharply attacked by environmentalists as a rollback of the progress being made under the Clean Air Act.
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