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March, 2008
In this Edition:
Bush Mercury Rules Overruled
ME Wind Power Task Force Report Calls For Massive Injection of Wind Power
News in Brief
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Bush Mercury Rules Overruled
 Last month a federal appeals court ruled that the Bush administration’s rules allowing power plants to avoid making deep mandatory cuts in mercury and other toxic air pollution violates the law. The court’s decision invalidates the so-called “Clean Air Mercury Rules,” which would have allowed dangerously high levels of mercury air pollution to persist under a weak cap-and-trade program for utilities that would not have taken full effect until well beyond 2020.
“The court has completely overturned these rules, and we are thrilled with this decision,” said Melissa Hoffer, CLF’s vice-president. “EPA’s rules would have worsened the already high levels of mercury contamination in certain areas here in the Northeast. Research shows that deep cuts in industrial mercury emissions translate to cleaner lakes and lower levels of mercury in fish and wildlife.”
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US News
CLF press release
ME Wind Power Task Force Report
Calls For Massive Injection of Wind Power
 Gov. Baldacci’s Task Force on Wind Power Development last month issued its final report calling for an investment of at least 3,000 MW of clean, wind-generated power by 2020.
“Given the prior mixed message Maine’s regulatory bodies have sent, the Task Force’s report provides a clear blueprint that will allow our state to become a national leader in the development of clean, renewable wind power. The Task Force has helped lay the groundwork for a massive investment in clean, emissions-free energy that will spur jobs and help avert the disastrous impacts climate change could have on our region and economy.”
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CLF press release
News in Brief
MA: Masshighway Water Pollution Case Goes to Trial
CLF press release
Rural casinos leave a huge carbon footprint
Boston Globe op/ed co-authored by CLF President Phil Warburg
ME: State tightens restrictions on Androscoggin water discharges
CLF press release
Boston Globe
RI: CLF Submits CRMC Brief to Rhode Island Supreme Court
CLF press release
Block Island Times
VT: Hold off on tougher sewage standards, lawmakers told
Burlington Free Press
Burlington Free Press
NH: Business and Industry Association skates on thin ice on climate change
Concord Monitor
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