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NEW YORK - New York State's attorney general said he would the sue the Bush Administration over the US Environmental Protection Agency's decision yesterday to ease rules that now limit air pollution by coal-burning utilities.
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"I will pursue legal action in federal court to prevent the Administration from gutting the Clean Air Act," New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said in a statement. New York State, along with other Northeast states, in the past has sued Midwest and Canadian utilities, charging that smog and acid rain they produce has turned Adirondack lakes acidic, killed forests, and caused respiratory diseases. The EPA's new rule changes would let utilities produce more electricity - and burn more fuel - by easing baseline requirements for pollutants that otherwise would require new controls. US utilities and industrial facilities have long protested the current rules because they restrict what the firms can do to enlarge or upgrade plants before they have to install costly equipment to control smog, acid rain and soot.
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