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Article: Two studies say new rules will increase some air pollution
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- AP Worldstream
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- October 24, 2002
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
Air pollution from oil refineries and factories would increase under
new rules the administration of President George W. Bush is preparing,
according to two new studies by a consultant used by the Environmental
Protection Agency.
The studies were released on the eve of a Thursday deadline for the
EPA to deliver to a Senate committee documents detailing decision-
making behind the administration's proposed relaxation of controls
for emissions from aging coal-fired power plants and other facilities.
They were commissioned by the Environmental Integrity Project, a group
funded by the Rockefeller Family Fund and headed by Eric Schaeffer,
a former chief ...