More legal battles loom over pollution
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
10/10/07
A $4.6 billion settlement Tuesday by one of the last holdouts among polluting power companies signals the end of a long legal debate over acid rain - and a tougher battle ahead over carbon dioxide and the use of fossil fuels. The agreement with American Electric Power Co., struck just as the company was to defend itself in court, ends an eight-year battle over reducing smokestack pollution that drifted across Northeast and mid-Atlantic states and chewed away on mountain ranges, bays and national landmarks...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
10/10/07
A $4.6 billion settlement Tuesday by one of the last holdouts among polluting power companies signals the end of a long legal debate over acid rain - and a tougher battle ahead over carbon dioxide and the use of fossil fuels. The agreement with American Electric Power Co., struck just as the company was to defend itself in court, ends an eight-year battle over reducing smokestack pollution that drifted across Northeast and mid-Atlantic states and chewed away on mountain ranges, bays and national landmarks...
http://tinyurl.com/2v6buh
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 10. Okt, 10:39
