As the summer heat threatens power-challenged California, the state is fighting federal regulators over energy policies.
State pressing federal regulators to cap the price of officials are electricity.
President Bush has opposed the limits, and economists say they distort supply and demand and wind up making things worse. But some are willing to make an exception in the case of California's electricity market. KPBS reports on All Things Considered. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that California must continue using ethanol as a fuel additive. The EPA rejected arguments by the state that ethanol or other additives aren't needed to protect air quality and could cause gasoline prices to go up.