<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Environment</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/specials/environment?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><description>Environment</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[EPA to Issue  Rule on  Mercury]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35072-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35072-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a rule to reduce mercury emissions from power plants through a cap-and-trade system that allows some power plants to make deep pollution cuts while others make none.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Impasse Stops 'Clear Skies' Measure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20314-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20314-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush's bid to rewrite federal air pollution laws ground to a halt in Congress yesterday when Republicans were unable to overcome objections in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that the bill would weaken the central pillars of the nation's environmental protection framework.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safety Limit Set for Perchlorate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36530-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36530-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The government yesterday issued its first safety standard for perchlorate, a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives that has been blamed for widespread contamination of drinking water, especially near many military sites.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPA Inspector Finds Mercury Plan Tainted]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61762-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61762-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Report says agency set limits to line up with the administration's free-market approaches to power plant pollution.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair Urges Action Against Global Warming]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39701-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39701-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The world's most powerful nations must act now to curb global warming, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told world leaders on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Rules Issued for National Forests]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20752-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20752-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration issued comprehensive new rules Wednesday for managing the national forests, jettisoning some environmental protections that date to Ronald Reagan's administration and putting in place the biggest change in forest-use policies in nearly three decades.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bipartisan Panel Seeks Greenhouse Gas Limits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45176-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45176-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A bipartisan commission that includes energy industry executives, environmentalists and academics will issue a report Wednesday that calls on the nation to adopt mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, set stricter fuel economy standards and promote nuclear power, renewable energy and oil exploration.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin  and Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power Plants Apply to Build Near Parks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7523-2004Oct28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7523-2004Oct28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the last four years, power companies have deluged regulators with applications to build power plants in locations that could affect air quality and visibility in national parks or wilderness areas, according to federal statistics compiled by the Natural Resources News Service, a nonpartisan organization.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Panel Approves Species Act Changes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4198-2004Jul21.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4198-2004Jul21.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The House Resources Committee voted Wednesday to make broad  revisions to the Endangered Species Act by making it more difficult to list species as endangered and declare their habitat off-limits.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment Period on Mercury Emissions to End]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13188-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13188-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After a last-minute barrage of public protests and private appeals, the Environmental Protection Agency will today end its public comment period on its plan to limit mercury pollution from power plants, one of the Bush administration's most controversial regulatory initiatives.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[40 Countries Agree to Set Up Network to Share Environmental Data]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41088-2004Apr25.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41088-2004Apr25.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[More than 40 countries agreed on Sunday to set up a network for sharing environmental data by 2015, which would allow nations to pool a wide range of information about the earth for the first time.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Praises Dams in Northwest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33987-2003Aug22.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33987-2003Aug22.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush, pressing the case that hydroelectric power and plentiful salmon runs can coexist, Friday visited one of four dams  that conservationists, fishermen and local Indian tribes are seeking to dismantle.]]></description><author> Amy Goldstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clean Air Rules to Be Relaxed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34334-2003Aug22.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34334-2003Aug22.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration has decided to allow thousands of the nation's dirtiest coal-fired power plants and refineries to upgrade their facilities without installing costly anti-pollution equipment, as they now must do.]]></description><author> Eric Pianin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPA Pressed to Call Air Safe After 9/11]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34276-2003Aug22.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34276-2003Aug22.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog says White House officials pressured the agency to prematurely assure the public that the air was safe to breathe a week after the World Trade Center collapse.]]></description><author> John Heilprin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPA Issues Rosier  'Clear Skies' Analysis]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60446-2003Jul1.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60446-2003Jul1.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new, optimistic assessment of the benefits of President Bush's anti-air-pollution bill Tuesday and disputed claims that it had intentionally hidden data showing that a competing Senate plan would provide greater long-term public health benefits at only a slightly higher cost.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta  and Eric Pianin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPA Withholds Air Pollution Analysis]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54598-2003Jun30.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54598-2003Jun30.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency for months has withheld analysis showing that a Senate plan to combat air pollution would be more effective and only slightly more expensive than President Bush's Clear Skies initiative for power plant emissions.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta  and Eric Pianin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future Dims for 'Clear Skies' Initiative]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45606-2003Jun28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45606-2003Jun28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One of President Bush's premier environmental initiatives -- to cut mercury emissions by nearly half within seven years -- is suddenly in deep trouble, the victim of administration infighting and resistance from industry leaders fearing huge costs.]]></description><author> Eric Pianin and Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking on the Bears]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4449-2003May17.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4449-2003May17.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Long-serving superstars of the environmental movement, grizzlies face new threats in the Bush administration's controversial land-use policies.]]></description><author> Blaine Harden</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crackdown Urged On Coal Pollution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7331-2003Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7331-2003Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A congressional advisory panel called Monday for a crackdown on pollution by aging coal-fired power plants and criticized Bush administration efforts to weaken clean-air enforcement rules.]]></description><author> Eric Pianin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmentalists Turn to Courts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46885-2003Jan26.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46885-2003Jan26.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/environment</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With diminished political influence at the White House and on Capitol Hill, environmental groups increasingly are counting on the courts to help advance their agenda.]]></description><author> Eric Pianin</author></item></channel></rss>