WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL URGES NEW INDUSTRY FOCUS ON CLEAR SKIES BILL

TUCSON, AZ -- White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton urged utility officials gathered here Jan. 23 to redouble their push in Congress for the Bush administration's Clear Skies legislation, suggesting the bill, which allows increased coal use, can help solve air quality problems and high natural gas prices. Connaughton made his remarks to the 9th annual Electric Utilities Environmental Conference during an opening session in which an energy company official also suggested that the industry consider striking...