Jeffords asks White House to re-consider CO2 emissions cap. (Emissions).(Senate Environment...

Senate Environment Committee Chairman Jim Jeffords, I-Vt., is urging the Bush administration to consider proposals to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as he moves forward with his bill to cut emissions [CO.sub.2], mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide from power plants.

In a letter Thursday to President Bush, Jeffords also urged the administration reconsider any proposal to rollback emissions-reduction requirements under the Clean Air Act. Hearings before the committee on emissions control measures have not demonstrated the "analytical justification necessary to sh