Agence France-Presse: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Tuesday it would “reconsider” an 11th-hour memo issued by the administration of former president George W. Bush, which said power plants could be built without checks on their carbon dioxide emissions. Issued in December by then EPA administrator Stephen Johnson, the memo said that under the Clean Air Act, the EPA did not have to take carbon dioxide emissions into consideration when issuing building permits to potential polluters, such …