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John Archibald
Local Government With Kyle Whitmire
Magic City Marketplace
Conservation: The Behavior Gap
The Price of Poverty
Price of Poverty: Time Banks
Price of Poverty: Involuntary Flextime
Price of Poverty: Buy-a-Meter
Birmingham-Southern's Struggles: a Student Perspective
Price of Poverty: Food Deserts
Remembering Cecil Whitmire
Occupational Tax Settlement
Child Care Subsidies at Risk
Robert Bentley
Vestavia Hills: Library in the Forest
Hotel Tax Dispute
Oil Spill and Hair Sausages
Anne Frank and Me
Jefferson County Commission Runoff
On the Line: Ask the Mayor
Midwives in Alabama
The Future of the Jefferson County Commission
New EPA Sulfur Dioxide Rules
Alabama Gubernatorial Primary 2010
Alabama and the Oil Spill: Seafood Safety
Alabama and the Oil Spill: One Family's Story
Bike to Work
The ASO plays Carnegie Hall
Alabama and the Oil Spill: Hurricane Season
News Features Archive

Birmingham-- Next week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will release much-anticipated new rules limiting sulfur dioxide in the air. When sulfur dioxide spews from smoke stacks and diesel engines it can cause acid rain. But that's just the beginning of the problem, says Frank O'Donnell. He's president of the non-profit environmental group Clean Air Watch. He spoke with WBHM's Tanya Ott.

The oil industry and coal-burning power plants have lobbied against the new rules. For an industry perspective, we turn to Alabama Power spokesman Michael Sznajderman. The utility runs several coal-burning power plants.

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| The EPA's statement on the proposed rules

| Washington Post article about potential economic impact of the proposed rules

~ Tanya Ott, May 28, 2010.