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INSTITUTE INDEX: Courts weigh polluter challenges to cleaner air

By Sue Sturgis

December 13, 2013 - This week top U.S. courts heard two cases challenging Environmental Protection Agency rules limiting health-damaging air pollution from power plants -- one related to mercury emissions and the other to cross-state air pollution coming mostly from Southern states and the Rust Belt.

Environment

South's rivers and streams in poor condition, EPA finds

By Sue Sturgis

March 27, 2013 - The first comprehensive assessment of the health of the nation's rivers and streams finds that many in the Southern Appalachians and Coastal Plain are unable to sustain life.

Environment

Coal plant rejected, Fla. utility turns to risky nukes

By Sue Sturgis

June 7, 2007 - As my fellow Facing South blogger Randy Neal reports today, the Florida Public Service Commission this week unanimously

INSTITUTE INDEX: Courts weigh polluter challenges to cleaner air

South's rivers and streams in poor condition, EPA finds

Coal plant rejected, Fla. utility turns to risky nukes

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