If you're deregulated, you get out from everything. |
Irish eyes are surely smiling - and we all will be breathing easier - with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. This is about as thorough a rebuke a court can give. |
Irish eyes are surely smiling -- and we all will be breathing easier -- with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. The court recognized the blarney in the administration's plan to gut a key part of the Clean Air Act and rejected it. Now thousands of dirty facilities will not be able to pollute more. |
It was terse and highly effective, written for people without much time by a person who controls the purse strings for the Republican Party. |
It's a blank check, |
It's pretty clear this plan is out of bounds. It's also clear the regional directors found it to be extreme. |
Streamlining is one thing. Amputation surgery is another -- and that's what we're talking about here. |
The action is clearly designed to cripple ongoing cases. |
The Bush administration was clearly humiliated by its unwillingness to follow the scientific recommendations. Johnson found himself making a political decision over the strenuous objections of the outside experts and frustrations of inside scientists. He appeared to be torn between observing a scientific consensus and honoring his political obligations to the trucking, power-plant, and other fuel-burning industries. |
This radical proposal is a 180-degree flip-flop from what the administration has been arguing in court. Instead of protecting public health, now EPA wants to protect the polluters. The proposal would completely sabotage clean-air law enforcement, and it would be open season for power plants to pollute even more than they do now. |
This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple, |
This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple. |