Government, N.J. utility settle pollution suit
A New Jersey utility agreed on Thursday to pay $1.4 million in penalties and spend more than $340 million to reduce pollutants from two power plants in what the Bush administration sees as a precedent for settling Clinton-era clean air lawsuits.
The accord between the government and Public Service Enterprise Group Fossil LLC could break a logjam in resolution of legal disputes that originated in the 1990s over pollution from 51 older, coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States.
Mrs. Bush makes debut
First lady Laura Bush made her Senate debut Thursday under the approving gaze of Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
The first lady called for an awareness campaign about early educational needs, urged better pay for teachers and called for a greater emphasis on language and literacy development in preschool programs.
The hearing was a return engagement for Mrs. Bush. Her scheduled testimony in the same Capitol Hill caucus room on Sept. 11 was abruptly called off after the terrorist attacks.
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