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Posts by Matthew Blake

EPA moves to ease pollution rules

By | 11.25.08 | 8:15 am

The Environmental Protection Agency seems on the brink of issuing a new regulation that would make it easier for power plants to operate longer hours — and emit more pollution.

The midnight deregulation express

By | 11.12.08 | 7:22 am

It’s something of a tradition — administrations using their final weeks in power to ram through a slew of federal regulations. With the election grabbing the headlines, outgoing federal bureaucrats quietly propose and finalize rules that can affect the health and safety of millions.