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| Representative Ed Pastor of Arizona's Congressional delegation voted for the environment 100% of the time in the past year and a half, according to the annual Congressional Scorecard on major environmental issues released today by Environment Arizona. | |
| For the first time ever, the Environmental Protection Agency today finalized two rollbacks to the nation’s premier toxic pollution disclosure program, the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). | |
| Statement of Diane E. Brown, Executive Director | |
| A federal appeals court today stuck down a highly controversial air pollution rule that was a centerpiece of the Bush administration’s environmental agenda. | |
| Every power plant in the country could increase its pollution under a proposed EPA rule announced today, resulting in more than 70,000 additional deaths nationwide from power plant pollution by 2025. | |
| The U.S. Senate today fell just shy of invoking the rarely-used Congressional Review Act to overturn a Bush administration rule granting power plants an extra 10-20 years to reduce their mercury pollution. The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to void federal agency rules and has been successfully used only once before. The “resolution of disapproval†(S.J.Res.20) failed on a bipartisan vote of 47-51, with nine Republicans supporting the resolution. U.S. Senator McCain supported the resolution, but U.S. Senator Kyl did not. | |
| The report—“Made in the U.S.A.â€â€” identifies which states and localities nationwide have the most mercury emissions from power plants and which power plants emit the most mercury. In 2003, power plants in the U.S. emitted more than 90,000 pounds of mercury into the air. | |
| Today the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on several challenges to a 2002 EPA rule governing when aging coal-fired power plants and other industrial facilities must take action to clean up, striking down key portions of the rule. | |
| At the stroke of midnight, and after years of delay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday finalized a haze rule that allows power plants to continue polluting the air in national parks contrary to the Clean Air Act. | |
| As the Bush administration renews its call for Congress to pass its stalled “Clear Skies†bill, a new Arizona Public Interest Research Group (Arizona PIRG) report finds that a loophole in the fine print of the bill could exempt 39 percent of the nation’s coal-fired power plant units from regulation, allowing them to emit toxic mercury indefinitely. | |
| Power Plant Mercury Emissions Demonstrate Weakness of Bush Administration Proposal | |