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Energy, Public Transit, and Coal Pollution

Energy, Public Transit, and Coal Pollution

 David Doniger talks about the environmental implications of President Obama's energy announcements on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and in the New York Times... Roland Hwang praises Obama's plans to set stricter emissions standards for vehicles in the Associated Press...In a lengthy quotation in TIME John Walke explains the difficulty of Obama's task to reverse harmful Bush policies... In the New York Times, Ralph Cavanagh celebrates Obama's appointment of Jon Wellinghoff, a former advisor for NRDC on U.S.-China energy issues, as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission... Deron Lovaas talks about the funding woes facing public transit in the Los Angeles Times ... And in the Gary Post Tribune Ann Alexander rails against the EPA for giving BP an air permit without resolving past emissions issues first.

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