CURRENT NEWS ITEM: EPA TO EASE PARK AIR RULES

TOP - 50 RELEVANT BREAKING NEWS

1. Federal Officials Seek to Ease Mine Dumping Rules

   The Interior Department has proposed easing restrictions on dumping mountaintop mining waste near rivers and streams, modifying protections that have been in place for a quarter-century.

2. Feds rush to ease species rules

   Rushing to ease endangered species rules, U.S. Interior Department officials are trying to review 200,000 comments from the public in just 32 hours, according to an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press.

3. Feds rush to ease endangered species rules

   Rushing to ease endangered species rules, U.S. Interior Department officials are trying to review 200,000 comments from the public in just 32 hours, according to an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press.

4. Homeland Security to Ease Rules on Federal Contractors' Hiring of Illegal Immigrants

   In a concession to business groups, the Homeland Security Department will significantly scale back its planned crackdown this winter on federal contractors that hire illegal immigrants.

5. France calls for EU to ease up on bailout rules

   STRASBOURG, France -- France, the current holder of the European Union presidency, called Tuesday on EU regulators to show flexibility in applying state subsidy rules so governments could help out their struggling carmakers.

6. EPA Proposal Would Ease Clean-Air Rules for National Parks

   The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, even though half of the EPA's 10 regional administrators formally dissented from the...

7. Bush Set To Ease Endangered Species Rules

   Preisdent Bush is set to install new rules that would exclude input of wildlife scientists when federal construction projects are proposed. Bush hopes to enact them before Friday, preventing President-elect Obama from easily reversing them.

8. Proposal Would Ease Rules on Cycling in National Parks

   The Interior Department issued a proposed rule yesterday that would make it easier for mountain bikers and other cyclists to traverse the backcountry of national parks.

9. GM, GMAC ease lending rules to entice car buyers

   NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp and its GMAC funding affiliate launched programs on Tuesday to lure U.S. car and truck buyers back into showrooms, as the nation's largest automaker tries to revive its sagging fortunes.

10. Connecticut high court rules same-sex couples can marry

    Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.

11. Ministers reviewing annuity rules

    Ministers are considering whether to suspend the rule requiring pension funds to be converted to an annuity by the age of 75, the Department for Work and Pensions said last night.

12. A Tree-Lined Boulevard That’s a Park and a Living Room

    The striated band of roadway, trees and people called Ocean Parkway both reflects Brooklyn and divides it with a thick green line.

13. Lime Wire Wants to Play By the Rules

    File sharing outfit Lime Wire is looking to go the way of Napster, but in an even bigger way. As it continues to battle the RIAA in legal matters, independent labels are embracing the service as it strives to become legitimate. read more

14. Heineken Cup 20 golden rules for clubs to follow to have chance of victory

    It takes a lot to win the Heineken Cup but here Will Greenwood outlines certain points to stick to for clubs to get as far as possible.

15. Fear factor rules market turmoil

    FEAR pushed Australia's market to its second worst one-day performance, analysts say - and falls overnight will do little to alleviate it.

16. Groups Push Candidates To Change Rules For Final Debate

    The Open Debate Coalition, an umbrella organization that includes the heads of MoveOn, Wikipedia, Craigslist and other groups, sent a letter today pushing Barack Obama and John McCain to change the rules for the final presidential debate, Politico reports. This week's second presidential debate was widely criticized, with some going so far as to call it the worst ever. Among the Open Debate Coalition's requests is that "that the debate moderator has broad discretion to ask follow-up questions after a candidate"s answer, so the public can be fully informed about specific positions," and that debate questions submitted and selected by the public be posed. "The signers of this letter don"t agree on every political issue," writes the group. "But we do agree that in order for Americans to make the best decision for president, we need open debates that are 'of the people' in the ways described above. You have the power to make that happen, and we ask you to do so." Full letter, via Politico, below.

17. Capello seeks to ease Walcott pressure

    Fabio Capello will have a quiet word with Theo Walcott before the World Cup qualifier with Kazakhstan - to stop England's boy wonder trying too hard.

18. Staten Island Up Close: The Secret Spring of Clove Lakes Park

    A Staten Island well, ever-flowing and laden with legend, has hordes of devotees that come from miles around for its water.

19. Letters To the Editor: New Bus Rules and New Yorkers Who Point the Way

    Putting the Brakes on Buses That Clog Up the Streets.

20. Dispatches: The Nobu of Red Hook Park

    Rafael Soler cooks for a mix of Latino immigrants and street-food connoisseurs who flock to this quiet corner of Brooklyn as much for the cuisine as for the sports.

21. Brooklyn Journal: A Tree-Lined Boulevard That’s a Park and a Living Room

    The striated band of roadway, trees and people called Ocean Parkway both reflects Brooklyn and divides it with a thick green line.

22. World Briefing | Europe: France: Agency Rules That Burqa Violates Values

    The French agency devoted to combating discrimination has determined that the burqa inhibits integration into French society.

23. Leinster ease Edinburgh aside

    Four first-half tries help Leinster record a bonus point victory over Edinburgh at Murrayfield.

24. Work starts on £5m park facelift

    Contractors move in to start work on the £5m facelift of a historical South Yorkshire park.

25. Bush says G-7 'will do what it takes' to ease economic crisis

    The morning appearance in the Rose Garden kicks off a weekend of high-stakes meetings between world finance ministers and central banks. President Bush and the finance ministers of seven of the world's most powerful economies stood shoulder to shoulder in the White House Rose Garden this morning and pledged to work together to resolve the crisis that has paralyzed global markets.

26. Accounting rules eased for banks

    NORWALK, Conn. | The standard-setting board for corporate accounting adopted new guidance on Friday for how banks value assets in the distressed market, a move that could boost their balance sheets.

27. World Leaders Offer Unity But No Steps To Ease Crisis

    Officials from 20 major countries yesterday endorsed a coordinated approach to the financial crisis, but they failed to announce any concrete steps, underscoring the difficulty of crafting a global plan to halt the contagion as it spread to the broader economy.

28. Disappointing Scotland draw a blank against Norway at Hampden Park

    Scotland 0 0 Norway 0 0Chris Iwelumo miss from five yards will haunt the debutant as Scotland's World Cup hopes take another blow against Norway.

29. Fran Mainella elected to National Park Trust board

    Duties will include conservation activities and promoting the trust’s mission to ensure that “everyone will have an American park experience.”

30. Restaurant owner wants artist to ease pain of seafront eyesore

    An unsightly grey hoarding -- erected along Greystones harbour as part of a redevelopment programme -- is devastating local business, according to one restaurant owner.

31. Jocelyn Park, David Scupp

    Dr. Jocelyn Woo Park, the daughter of Youn Sun Park and Dr. James Park of Woodbridge, Va., was married Saturday to David Alan Scupp, the son of Barbara E. Scupp and Charles H. Scupp of Valley Stream, N.Y. Rabbi Jill Hausman officiated at Battery Gardens in Manhattan.

32. PM says banking crisis will ease

    Gordon Brown says he believes confidence in the banking system will be restored by global action "in the next few days".

33. Car park ramp crash man 'stable'

    Police renew their appeal for witnesses to a serious city centre road incident on a car park ramp.

34. Ross County ease into final

    Match report from Victoria Park to follow.

35. Sony rules out PS3 price cut before Christmas

    Japanese consumer electronics group, Sony, has ruled out cutting the price of the PS3 console before Christmas, insisting that it is better value than rivals half its price

36. High anxiety still rules on Wall Street

    Investors agonizing over whether the stock market is bottoming out or about to continue its precipitous decline face more uncertainty this week.

37. New voting rules disenfranchise native voters: chiefs

    Aboriginal chiefs across Canada say new voting rules mean thousands of natives could be discouraged from going to the polls in Tuesday's federal election.