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The article offers updates related to environmental protection initiatives in the U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration has expressed their intention to strengthen air pollution and mercury policies for the optimization of environmental enforcement. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed implementation of the 1997 8-Hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality standards. The McIlvaine Co. reveals that the $6 billion stimulus package for water industry is expected to improve and expand water infrastructure projects which includes clean and purified water.

Focuses on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's development of a strategy to further reduce toxic air emissions in hundreds of areas across the country. Emphasis on urban areas where concentrations of air pollutants are especially high; Goal of reducing cancer risks; Establishment of standards for industries.

Focuses on the impact of rulings by a federal court and the United States Environmental Protection Agency to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) air-pollution regulations affecting coatings in California. Judge Harry Hupp's ruling in a suit involving the SCAQMD's 1994 Air Quality Plan; Comments from industry officials.

Reports on the approach proposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman for the reduction of air emissions from powerplants. Consequences of the plan; Benefits of the proposal; Exclusion of carbon dioxide emissions from the plan.

Reports on the signing of an agreement between Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina state governments to develop regional air emission curbs and compliance timetables to reduce growing pollution problems in the Great Smoky Mountains. Air quality protection; Signatories to the agreement.

Focuses on environmental rules being pushed by President Bill Clinton's administration before the change in leadership on January 20, 2001. Proposal to curb sanitary sewer overflows; Proposed requirements that would add to clean air restrictions for powerplants and industrial facilities; Rule to limit arsenic in drinking water.

Reports on the approval of mercury emission limits by Florida's Environmental Regulation Commission. Requirements set by regulations; Deadline for different facilities to meet standards; Freedom for incinerator developers to choose their own emission control methods; Specified timetable for scrubberless plants; Plans by other states to set their own standards.

Focuses on the US Environmental Protection Agency's proposed National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for the Pesticide Active Ingredient production source category under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act.

Comments on the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plan to approve a rule that will allow companies to buy and sell air pollution credits as a means of meeting Clean Air Act requirements. Goals of the proposed rule; Provisions of the proposed rule.