Sentence examples for relax pollution from inspiring English sources

At the same time, the White House is considering a recommendation by Mrs. Whitman and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham to relax pollution rules.

John Walke, a senior lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the abandonment of the emissions measurement rule was the culmination of a four-year fight against the administration's efforts to relax pollution standards for industry or to ignore its scientific advisers when setting new standards.

And electric power companies are pushing the government to relax pollution-control requirements.

A1 States Challenge E.P.A. Shift Environmental groups and state officials across the Northeast began preparing legal challenges after the Bush administration issued rules that will relax pollution-control regulations.

That resolve was evident last month, when New Jersey joined the six New England states and New York in suing the Bush administration over its proposal to relax air pollution standards.

The Bush administration's move to relax air pollution standards on old industrial plants has quickly attracted more powerful opposition than decisions to drill for oil and gas in fragile areas or log trees in the wilderness.

Some power producers have raised the idea that because natural gas prices are high, the federal government should temporarily relax air pollution rules, allowing more coal and oil to be burned.

Correction: December 8 , 2002 Sunday A news analysis article last Sunday about the Bush administration's move to relax air pollution standards on old industrial plants misstated the measure used for the presence of ozone.

A Republican congressional majority's wish list is filled with proposals to relax anti-pollution measures on the dubious grounds that electricity bills will soar and substantial job loss will otherwise occur.

The industry's main lobbying group, the Edison Electric Institute, already had had meetings with White House and Energy Department officials about relaxing the pollution rules.

Gov. Gray Davis has relaxed air pollution rules for natural gas-fired power plants, a move environmentalists called a big step backward for a state with the nation's worst air pollution.