... and Clean Air battles. (Networks).(Brief Article)

SPEAKING OF CLEAN AIR, a massive coalition of environmental groups has set its sights on a plan now gestating in the White House and among industry lobbyists to grant regulatory waivers to energy plants, chemical manufacturers, and oil refineries. Big-buck lobbyist and former Republican National Committee chair Haley Barbour is busily working to iron out any differences between the administration and the K Street cabal.

(The plan will surely entail changes to EPA regulations; it may also require congressional action.) Meanwhile, U.S. PIRG, the Clean Air Trust, the National ...

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