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Obama reverses Bush effort in pollution case
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| Times of India , Sunday, February 08, 2009 |
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| WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is abandoning a Bush administration appeal of an air pollution case, signaling that the US government will embrace tougher rules to cut mercury emissions from power plants.
The case was soon to come before the Supreme Court. The Obama administration submitted papers to the court asking for the case to be dismissed.
An appeals court last year rejected a Bush administration plan for regulating mercury emissions. It said the plan should not have included allowing utilities to purchase emission credits instead of actually reducing emissions.
Scientists fear mercury pollution leads to neurological problems in infants.
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