EPA Drops Plan to Ease Pollution Rules

December 1, 2006

(AP) -- The Bush administration, looking at the prospect of stronger oversight from a Democratic-led Congress, is withdrawing a proposal to let big polluters report less often on what they spew from their smokestacks.



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