Posted on 06/24/2005 10:02:52 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals courts on Friday rejected claims by thirteen states that the Bush administration's decision to let older power plants spew more pollution into the air undermines public health in violation of the Clean Air Act.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with the Environmental Protection Agency, saying New York and a dozen other states failed to show how the administration's new regulations violate the 1970 environmental law.
The Bush administration argued its decision to let power and other industrial plants modernize without making them install expensive new pollution controls will remove barriers to innovation and increase productivity.
Environmental critics said it will also increase pollution.
The judges' 73-page ruling said it is not clear if the administration's changes in "new source review" regulations will lead to greater pollution, or if leaving the old rules in place would deter companies from modernizing.
Judge Stephen Williams wrote:
"This case illustrates some of the painful consequences of reliance on command-and-control regulation in a world where emission control is typically far more expensive, per unit of pollution, when accomplished by retrofitting old plants than by including state-of-the-art control technology in new ones."
Other states in the lawsuit were California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Well, certainly there's no bias in this news article, now is there?
Looks like Devlin Barrett learned well from his/her? Environmental Whacko mentors.
I wonder if any of these enviro nuts understand who would have to pay the bill for retrofitting?
Of course, everything that has ever happened since the dawn of time is Bush's fault.
Sounds to me like the court made this ruling solely on their personal ideology. Now that's unique. NOT!!
They understand. Their purpose is to cripple the U.S. not improve the quality of the environment. For them the higher the costs the better.
Of course, everything that has ever happened since the dawn of time is Bush's fault.
Yeah, I am still angry about that Garden of Eden thing. We had it made until then. Now we have to depend on the government.
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