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Take a good, long look at your latest electricity bill, because there's a very good chance it could be skyrocketing in the near future. The culprit is a new EPA regulation called the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (UMACT) rule. On paper it's supposed to control mercury and a host of other emissions from coal-based power plants. In reality it sets a standard that many plants can't possibly meet by the 2015 deadline, forcing them to shut down and forcing your electricity bills to go up. Sen. Ed Walker Why would...
On July 21, Gov. Schweitzer was in Fort Hood, Texas, where he suggested by phone to a Montana reporter that ExxonMobil was concealing the presence of "heavy" crude in its Yellowstone Pipeline. "How could we ever sign off on a cleanup if we don't know what we're cleaning up?" asked the governor, accusing the company outright of impeding the cleanup effort. The next morning, a prominently placed headline in the Billings Gazette read, "ExxonMobil not cooperating, Schweitzer says." Sen. Ed Walker There was only one problem: The...
