When President Bush talked up his Clear Skies proposal on Monday, he chose as his backdrop a huge coal-fired power plant in Monroe, Mich. -- one of the filthiest power plants in the U.S. Why? Simple electoral politics, of course. In the 2000 election, Bush lost Michigan, a key industrial swing state, and he doesn't intend to repeat that failing in 2004, so he spun his latest environmental and energy plans as economy boosters before a crowd of blue-collar workers in the Wolverine State. Get the full story on Bush's Michigan maneuvering, plus the scoop on defunding Superfund and more -- only in Muckraker, on the Grist Magazine website.