TO BOOST FUTURE CHANCES, INDUSTRY DELAYS PUSH TO RELAX EMISSION CUTS

Faced with inadequate Senate support, industry officials are delaying a push for legislation extending deadlines for states to meet EPA's air quality standards, and will instead make their push for support closer to an approaching 2010 deadline that applies to many areas of the country. The move is intended to create a sense of urgency that may give future legislation necessary momentum to pass, industry and environmentalist sources say. These sources say the Senate has little appetite to amend the...