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Return to The Canary Coalition - Main Page OLDER NEWS ARTICLES APRIL 2002 Canary
Coalition Responds to NC Governor's Announcement Governor Easley Announces Clean Air
Plan Environmental Protection Agency
Watchdog Resigns In Disgust "EPA ombudsman Robert Martin's Earth Day resignation came after he raised questions about agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman's financial ties to the owner of a Denver Superfund site and to a firm that provided insurance around the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan." Power Plant Emissions Blamed For
Premature Deaths MARCH 2002 EPA Documents Show Plan To Erode Air
Protections EPA Regulator Holmstead Is
"Villain Of The Month" Smog And Soot Rules Clear Final Legal
Hurdle U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Pollution
Standards EPA Gets OK For Air Quality Rules Forum: Poor Air Quality May Choke WNC
Tourism National Park Conservation Association
Ranks Most Endangered "The commission's list incorporates threats that range from major, endemic problems — such as air pollution in the Great Smoky Mountains along the Tennessee-North Carolina border." EPA Will Ease Coal Plant Rules
- Incentives To Replace Pollution Lawsuits Air Pollution Top Issue Facing
Great Smokies Park Senate Rejects Proposal To Require
Utilities To Use More Renewable Energy EPA
Emission Cuts Hang In Balance With TVA Verdict EPA Ombudsman Fights For His Job Letting Utility Companies Off The
Hook "Thirty-two years ago, the United States adopted new antipollution rules, the Clean Air Act. The rules exempted dozens of older coal plants, some of them built in the 1940s and 1950s--provided those plants did not undertake major expansions. The idea was that if a company has money to expand, it also has money to install the same antipollution technology its competitors are required to use. ... But some utility companies did quietly expand those plants without making them cleaner. At least, that's what the Environmental Protection Agency says." The Bush Administration's Assault
On The Environment Chief US EPA Pollution Watchdog
Quits For Bush, Environment Is Local FEBRUARY 2002 Study: Pollution May Cause Asthma JANUARY 2002 Energy Polluters Poised To Reap $62
Billion In Taxpayer Handouts Cheney Again Refuses To Give
Energy Policy Details To Congress Trust Hails Pollution Clean-Up
Pact U.S. Government, New Jersey Settle
Air Pollution Lawsuit Bush Energy Plan Said To Help
Industry, Not Public SAMI Study Says We're All To Blame
For Haze And Smog Clean Air Review Hangs Over Bush Clean coal? New technologies
reduce emissions, but sharp criticisms persist Agency Opts Not To Alter Fuel
Rules EPA Postpones New Smog Rules On
Coal-Burning Power Plants Bush Enlists U.S. Unions In Push
For Energy Plan > NEWS
FLASHBACK Longtime Combatants Unite On
Air-Quality Bill Bush Is No Environmental Defender,
Attorneys Charge Environmental Tussles Return After
National Pall Study: N.C. Pollution Is Home
Grown Bush Easing Power Plant Emissions
Standards? White House Warned On Easing Clean
Air Rules U.S. To Shelve Fuel-Efficiency
Plan Rollback On Clean Air Bush Urged Not To Ease Emission
Rules Report: Panel Urges Easing Air
Pollution Rules Senate To Examine Plans To Weaken
Pollution Rules Senators Plan Joint Hearing On
Clean Air Former Asheville Mayor Joins
Canary Coalition Advisory Board State Could Be On Cusp Of New Era
Of Renewable Energy U.S. Agencies Sued On Alternative
Fuel Rule Electricity From The Earth's Core Don't Foul The Air DECEMBER 2001 Air Pollution, Birth Defects
Definatively Linked Pollution Link With Birth Defects
In U.S. Study Bush Expected To Weaken Portions
Of Clean Air Act A Canary In Coal Country Study: Kids' Lungs Stunted By Air
Pollution Study: NC Responsible For Most Of
Its Air Pollution NC Lawmakers Fail To Enact Air
Pollution Bill Smokestack Bill Left Unresolved Trading For Clean Air Just Got
Easier For Big Industry An Open Letter On The "Clean
Smokestacks Bill" NOVEMBER 2001 Costs And Savings Of Smokestacks Act North American Power Needs Bring
Environmental Challenges Clean Air Not Just A Local Issue Clean Smokestacks Bill Sits In House
Committee, Fate Uncertain Smokestacks Act Should Be Put On Fast
Track "This is the most important environmental and public health legislation before state government this year." - AC-T Editorial Staff Clean Smokestacks Act Needs Final Push Canary Coalition Speaks On Smokestacks
Bill Cost Will Be High To Regulate
Coal-Buring Power Plant Emissions Ill Health Can Be Blamed On Breathing
Toxins US Companies Breaking Environmental
Laws Can Now Obtain Federal Grants OCTOBER 2001 State Of The Canary Address Let's Make Changes And Get The
Clean Smokestacks Bill Moving Country Examines Energy Options
For Vehicles, Power Plants Two Newest Wind Farms Begin
Supplying Clean Energy S1078 New
Compromise Proposal Clean Air Bill Divides
Environmentalists SEPTEMBER 2001 Smokestacks Compromise Gives Away
Too Much Are Utilities Sabotaging Clean
Smokestacks Bill? Some Fight Pollution By Dropping
Off The Grid AUGUST 2001 Pending Deal Expected To Advance
NC Clean Air Bill U.S. Reseachers Argue For
Harnessing Wind Power NASA Junks Ozone Satellite NC Budget Crisis Diverts Attention
From Efforts On Environment Relaxing Clean Air Rules? "the Bush administration will propose dropping enforcement action against some of the country's oldest and worst polluting power plants. The administration said Monday the decision is part of an overall strategy to address pollution, and at the same time help ease America's critical power woes. " ... "Under a new plan to be unveiled this fall, EPA Administrator Christie Whitman will propose shifting the focus from individual enforcement to industry-wide pollution standards. Dirty power plants would be enticed with economic incentives to clean up their act - but no punishment if they don't." EPA Seeks To Narrow Pollution
Initiative JULY 2001 Research Group Argues Against Power
Plant Clean-Up EPA Aims To Simplify Pollution Rules
For Utilities "The Bush administration aims to replace many of the federal clean air rules that power plants must abide by with more simple emission targets for certain pollutants, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said this week. " Seattle Adopts Kyoto Limits, Scolds
Bush Kyoto Salvaged, Without U.S. Bush Plans to Shift Some EPA
Enforcement to States JUNE 2001 New Rule From EPA Could Help WNC
Air House Votes To Block Bush Energy
Plans Republican Senator From Tennessee
Calls On Bush To Protect National Parks From Air
Pollution TVA Joins Coalition To Combat
Pollution Rules North Carolina Plans To Expand
Ozone Forecasts Easley, Other Governors Sign
Regional Air Quality Pact Environmentalists Meet With Cheney Polluters Can Emit, But Now They
Can't Hide Environmental Groups To Meet With
White House Higher Ed Leaders Ask President To
Reverse Energy Policy "A group of 42 university and college presidents around the country urged President Bush in a letter Thursday to rethink his energy policy, which relies heavily on fossil fuels." ... "Instead of defending 19th century industries using 1950s coal and oil-based technologies, we have an opportunity to lead the world into the twenty-first century with new technologies developed in the United States," they said in letter initiated by John DiBiaggio, Tufts University president. "This requires that we shift away from, not toward, traditional uses of coal and oil." MAY 2001 EPA Adopts Rule To Cut Haze In
National Parks "90-mile views often are reduced to 14 to 24 miles on average."..."(the rule) would require coal-fired utilities, industrial boilers, refineries and iron and steel plants built between 1962 and 1977 to be retrofitted with new pollution-control technology by 2013." *** Canary Comment *** Taylor To Seek TVA Reductions
Based On Data In GAO Report Taylor Helps Form Odd Coalition Western North Carolina Death Rate
Linked To Pollution An Interfaith Call For Energy
Conservation And Climate Justice Pumps Start Dispensing
Vegetable-oil Based Fuel Bush Vs.
The American Landscape Canary Coalition Makes Raleigh
Pilgramage To Discuss Air Quality Mountain Legislators Lead Fight
For Clean Air U.S. Denies New Energy Plan Fuels
Global Warming Scorched Earth Policy Reject The Industry's Attempts To
Weaken The Clean Air Act Tell President Bush to keep his campaign promise to clean up the nation’s power plants! California Governor Slams Bush
Energy Plan Bush-Cheney Energy Policy: Cure
Worse than Disease Bush Administration's Energy Plan
Threatens Environment Scientists, Environmentalists
Counter Bush/Cheney Energy Plan Energy Trade Coalition To Bush:
Get A Clue Bush Unveils Energy Plan Promoting
Oil, Gas and Nuclear Power Profit Through Pollution, Part 2 Profit Through Pollution, Part 1 WNC Air Pollution May Force EPA
Sanctions Conservatives Who Don't Conserve Watt Applauds Bush Energy Strategy "It's deja vu all over again. It's what we saw with the energy "crisis' when James Watt was in charge," - Johanna Wald, director of the lands program for the National Resources Defense Council > NEWS
FLASHBACK WNC Senators Oppose Proposed
Energy Plan Read Snator Charles Carter's statement
here. Blue Planet: CO2 Control For Coal
Late Mountain Air Gets Low Grade APRIL 2001 100 Days of Bush: Disaster Zone
For The Environment? W's Green War "Next Sunday is the 31st anniversary of Earth Day, but for the administration it is not likely to be a joyful occasion. Never mistaken for a green, Bush is being vilified as the most anti-environmental president since Ronald Reagan."... Senators Seek Help From President
Bush With TVA New Bill May Help Air Problems Clean Air Bill To Get Hearing In
Legislature Metcalf, Nesbitt to introduce N.C.
Clean Smokestacks Act Haywood Commissioners Don't Act On
Clean-Air Proposal MARCH 2001 Let's Don't Take Sides; All Air
Should Be Clean The South Enters The Season Of
Ozone Alerts Canary Coalition Seeks
Regional Support For Efforts Clean Air Support Hits Cold Front Canary Coalition Joins N.C.
Clean Air Coalition N.C. Clean Air Coalition North Carolina Clean Air Coalition Clear The Air, Environmentalists Urge
Easley Supreme Court Rejects States' Smog
Arguments Canary Coalition Deserves Our
Support FEBRUARY 2001 Supreme Court Clears EPA to Regulate Cleaner Air "...the court also rejected the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rules on implementing new rules for ground level ozone, or smog, and ordered the agency to develop a more "reasonable" interpretation of the law." Read the Supreme Court's decision here. Canary Coalition Gaining
Support Among Local Business Community Industry Presses EPA To Derail
Historic Clean Air Program For National Parks "On Earth Day 1999, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a ground-breaking program to restore clean air to some of the country's most revered national parks including the Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains, Glacier, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Acadia, Shenandoah, Mount Rainier, Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands, and Big Bend. The program was the culmination of more than 20 years of legislative activity, scientific research, state/EPA consultation, and public debate. In a February 5th written request to EPA Administrator Whitman, an industry coalition urged the new administration to derail the clean air program."... JANUARY 2001 Air Quality: No More Important
Issue Political Will Needed To Clean Air The Politics of Air Pollution Air Pollution Remedy Rests With
Politicians Changing Environmental Face of North
Carolina White House Warning on WNC Air
Quality A Pall Over Texas: Bush, Big Oil
& The Environment FALL / WINTER 2000 SPIR Supports The Canary
Coalition Closing the Loop: Cleaning Up
Dirty Power Plants Keep Attention on Our Air Quality
Problems Polluted Parks in Peril: The Five Most Air Polluted EMC Adopts New NOx Control Rules *** Canary Comment *** SPRING / SUMMER 2000 Surviving Great Smoky "How does air pollution affect wild plants? This summer a team of scientists hopes to find an answer in the notoriously smoggy mountain range"... "To summer hikers and tourists it may look pretty. But America's Great Smoky Mountains National Park, shrouded in a hazy cloak of ozone and sulphur dioxide, may be a veritable hell for its rich spectrum of plant life--as well as for visitors who suffer from asthma."... Air Pollution Deadlier Than
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