A federal judge ruled yesterday that FirstEnergy’s Ohio Edison Co. violated the law by upgrading seven aging coal-fired power plants without installing anti-pollution equipment, in a case with major implications for future clean-air enforcement efforts.
IT WAS THE first time a federal judge ruled against a utility in one of the dozen cases that were brought against 51 aging and dirty power plants by the Justice Department and state attorneys general in the Northeast during the Clinton administration. The ruling set a precedent that is likely to influence the outcome of several other pending clean-air cases involving some of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest plants.
The judge who heard the Ohio Edison case, U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. of Columbus, is scheduled to rule later this year on a much larger case involving 10 power plants operated by American Electric Power Service Corp., based in Columbus. The Justice Department also is attempting to conclude settlement negotiations with Cincinnati-based Cinergy Corp. and several other companies.
In his ruling, Sargus found that a “preponderance of evidence” showed...
http://www.msnbc.com/news/949256.asp?0cl=c3The American Media Whores should be RICO'd with the GOP. It's all there to be seen. Clinton had done so much for our country and the economy was booming but if you listen to the Whore Media you get a completely diff. picture, why? The GOP/Secrect Gov. has infiltrated the media.
Clinton:
1. Broke the back of Big Tobacco. All the no smoking indoors and tobacco suits were 100% Clinton.
2. Clinton did his best to take on the Drug Crime Families and reform our health care but the GOP/Media Whores attacked Hilary Clinton.
3. Our environment was on the way to be taken care off. In balance with massive enconomic growth.
4. Sane foreign affairs policies. By foreign countries, Clinton is the most liked leader in history.
5. Did we have so much terrorism under Clinton? No, because he tried and succeeded in negociating moral and just comprimises with poor people of the world.
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