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"Smoke Signals: Will the EPA Cave To Republican Pressure?" [1]


Air pollution is worsened in Chicago by the Fisk coal-burning power plant built in 1903. It is grandfathered against Clean Air Act requirements for modern pollution controls. Will EPA cave in to Republican pressure to let its pollution keep harming health of Chicagoans?

Bradford Plumer reports for the New Republic April 7, 2011. [2]

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Environmental Politics [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Public [6]
Source: New Republic [2], 04/11/2011
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