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Solar Panel Since 1999, the EPA has notified a half-dozen companies that they had broken air-pollution rules by expanding their power plants without curbing emissions. Dozens of other plants were under investigation for the same violation.

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Epa Greenpower Usually the EPA's next step would be to send its cases against the companies to the Justice Department. Lawyers there would either sue the companies or start settlement talks.

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Wind Energy But in the past year, the EPA softened its rules for violations. Now, it plans to use the relaxed standards not those in place when the companies violated the laws to determine whether the companies should be sued.

And while the Senate does its best to add to the foul air in Southern California, fired power plants. Administration officials recently directed the Environmental Protection Agency to drop any enforcement actions it may be pursuing against plants for spewing thousands of tons of illegal pollution in recent years. While ordering investigations of the plants to be stopped, control equipment for new plants or major remodels of existing facilities. scrubbing gear is readily available, but apparently the Bush administration sees it as an unnecessary intrusion on a company's profitability.

Solar "We will evaluate each pending investigation on a case-by-case basis to determine whether it will be pursued or set aside," EPA spokeswoman Cynthia Bergman said.

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Nuclear Power Under the Bush administration, the EPA has relaxed rules on power-plant expansions, toxic-waste cleanups and other environmental problems.

Greenpower Inc But this is the first time that rule changes would help companies already accused of violating pollution laws avoid going to court, said Eric Schaeffer, a former EPA enforcement official.

Solar Electricity Schaeffer and a source close to the investigations said the changes make it unlikely that any of the pending cases will be pursued.

Power Greene The EPA's decision is a victory for power plants. Companies have complained for years that rules on plant expansions are confusing and punitive.

Green Electric Clinton administration officials were unsympathetic. But making the expansion rules more business-friendly has been one of the EPA's top priorities during the Bush administration.

Am Greenpower The decision to dismiss the pending cases follows other attempts by the EPA to respond to industry concerns.

Renewable Electricity In August, the agency published a new rule making it easier for plants to expand without installing technology to cut air pollution.

Green Company The EPA has long claimed that the new rules are prospective that is, they apply only to projects done after the rules were published, not to earlier expansions.

Led Greenpower "It is certainly our intent to make these (rules) prospective only," top EPA air official Jeff Holmstead told a Senate committee in 2002.

Alternative Energy That makes the decision to re-evaluate and likely dismiss pending cases a significant departure from the agency's earlier position.

Green Products By Traci Watson
USA TODAY - 11/6/2003

Topic: Air Pollution

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