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Some people are scared of nuclear power, the resulting nuclear waste, and the possibility of both meltdowns and terrorist attacks on a plant. These concerns are legitimate but less terrifying and less likely than inevitable environmental pollution and health problems from fossil fuels...
...even curtail it but to remake it in fundamental ways. Bush is preternaturally opposed to anything regulatory--and existing clean-air law, he believes, saddles energy producers with too many rules and too little incentive to be clean. So in February Bush proposed new legislation to curtail power-plant pollution. His plan, which he dubs Clear Skies, ditches regulations that govern the major power-plant pollutants--mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides--in favor of a "cap and trade" system. The market-oriented idea is to set nationwide targets for emissions reductions that are mandatory, but let industry decide...
...ones included in Bush's Clear Skies plan. That's because any trading system that does away with existing regulations, as Clear Skies would, has potentially deadly side effects. It could undermine the EPA's long fight to bring many of the nation's oldest, dirtiest power plants into compliance with current law. And since the caps would be nationwide--letting a polluter in one state trade credits with a clean plant in another--localities that suffer from the dirtiest air could be left with no recourse. Environmentalists say the caps in Bush's plan are so weak that...
...notes, wage settlements would have to be less than the growth in GDP, which was .6% last year. Another worry for IG Metall is the number of companies that are leaving the employers' association, known as Gesamtmetall. By withdrawing, companies can negotiate their own wage deals on a plant-by-plant basis. Fewer than half of the factories in eastern Germany are under the national wage contracts. "It's a concern for us," says Klaus Mehrens, head of IG Metall in the western state of Hesse. The union represents both professional and manual workers at covered businesses, although membership...
This is the third explosion at the location in two years. Last August, gas in sewers outside the plant ignited, and in June 2000, a transformer at the site exploded, showering nearby residences and cars with oil. That fire burned for about an hour before burning itself...