This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple.
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's a blank check.
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.
It's pretty clear this plan is out of bounds. It's also clear the regional directors found it to be extreme.
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.
It was terse and highly effective, written for people without much time by a person who controls the purse strings for the Republican Party.
If you're deregulated, you get out from everything.
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