EPA Chief Defends Plan to Clean Up Power Plants
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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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