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EPA completes haze reduction plan; Sierra Club hails win for Arkansas

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has completed a plan to reduce haze in the Caney Creek and Upper Buffalo Wilderness Areas caused by emissions from coal-burning power plants.
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A win for the EPA on air quality, a black eye on water regulations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency won a victory in the D.C. Court of Appeals today on its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. On a political level, that's probably outweighed by a slapdown offered yesterday by a congressional watchdog agency concerning another regulation, the Waters of the United States rule. Arkansas AG Leslie Rutledge is in the middle of both fights.
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Federal judge sides with Sierra Club on haze reduction lawsuit

Federal Judge Leon Holmes today ruled for the Sierra Club in its suit to require a haze reduction plan for Arkansas. He ordered a final notice of rulemaking by Aug. 31.

Federal court again sets back Rutledge attack on clean power plan

The Sierra Club happily announces that the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has again turned back a challenge by Attorney General Leslie Rutledge to the EPA's plan to clean up power plant emissions.
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Rutledge v. EPA, again

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who is driven by animosity toward the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act, announced today that Arkansas will join 16 states in challenging the EPA's rejection of state power plant startup, shutdown or malfunction plans.

Entergy files proposal to shut White Bluff coal-fired plant by 2028

Entergy Arkansas has filed a response to a federal Environmental Protection Agency plan to reduce haze in Arkansas. Rather than install expensive scrubbers to reduce air pollution at four units of two power plants, it proposes instead to shut down the two-unit White Bluff power plant — the state's biggest and dirtiest coal-burning power plant — by 2028.
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Political smog v. clean air

Here we go again, another fruitless skirmish in the great War on Coal, coming to a battlefield near you.

Another NFIB candidate, Andy Davis, flunks rating by one small business

Of course the NFBI likes Andy Davis. They love a legislator who fights clean water and lobbies for his own self-interest in the halls of the legislature.
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National Geographic examines Arkansas under EPA carbon rule

National Geographic writes about the challenges and opportunities faced by Arkansas in complying with the EPA Clean Power Plan, the agency's proposed rule for reducing carbon emissions from power plants. This week, the EPA extended by 45 days the public comment period on the proposed rule, which gives stakeholders — power companies, environmental groups, etc — more time to give input.

Efficiency expert says Arkansas leading the nation on planning for EPA carbon rule

Neal Elliott of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy says much of Arkansas' compliance with EPA's new carbon guidelines can come from efficiency improvements in homes, businesses and industry, not just shifting to cleaner sources of power.
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It's unanimous: All leading Ark. politicians oppose a reduction of air pollution in the state

Asa Hutchinson, the Republican candidate for governor, called a news conference today to say he'd fight proposed Environmental Protection Agency rules that would require anti-pollution improvements to Arkansas's coal-burning power plants.

Air pollution from fracking: EPA dodges comment

Interesting — make it unsettling — reporting here from the Center for Public Integrity and Inside Climate News about efforts to get the EPA to talk about air pollution monitoring in the Texas fracking territory. Reporters met a stone wall. This follows their discovery that state regulators have done little about toxic chemical emissions from gas exploration.
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