Green groups won an important victory for clean air last week when a federal appeals court ruled that chemical plants, refineries, and other industrial sites are still subject to pollution limits even during equipment malfunctions and when plants start up or shut down. Some refineries and other sites have used the Clean Air Act’s start-up, shut-down loophole—which the Bush administration expanded—to evade enforcement actions. “For more than a decade, polluters have relied on this loophole at the expense of neighboring communities,” said Earthjustice attorney Jim Pew.
source: Contra Costa Times, Earthjustice, Reuters
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Delay And Deny Posted 1:18 pm
25 Dec 2008
George Bush...Saves the Day...AGAIN!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/washington/24air.html?s ...
In Reversal, Court Allows a Bush Plan on Pollution
The regulation, known as the Clean Air Interstate Rule, had been the centerpiece of the Bush administration's re-engineering of the Clean Air Act. It set significant targets to reduce pollution around the power plants and in the downwind states whose air quality was affected by the emissions.
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