humpty dumpty world...right next to bizarro world

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Bush attempts to weaken Clean Air Act are illegal, court rules

 

Americans who breathe scored a big victory on Friday, when a federal appeals

court declared illegal the Bush administration's long-running effort to

undermine pollution rules for coal-fired power plants and other

pollution-belching industrial facilities. Judge Judith Rogers, writing for the

court, castigated the U.S. EPA for trying to redefine language in the Clean Air

Act to selectively exclude many facilities from the requirement that they

install new air-pollution controls when making significant upgrades. " EPA's

approach would ostensibly require that the definition of 'modification' include

a phrase such as 'regardless of size, cost, frequency, effect,' or other

distinguishing characteristic, " Rogers wrote. " Only in a Humpty Dumpty world

would Congress be required to use superfluous words while an agency could ignore

an expansive word that Congress did use. We decline to adopt such a worldview. "

Oh, snap! Enviros and the 14 states that brought the case hailed the decis ion.

No word yet on whether EPA will appeal.

 

 

straight to the source: The Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin, 18 Mar 2006

 

 

straight to the source: The New York Times, Michael Janofsky, 18 Mar 2006

 

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