Reverend Ref +

THE MORE I READ ....

I'm not even sure where to begin. Uncontrollable spending, illegal spying, general lying, making the case that torture is a good thing .... and now griping about the fact that having clean air and water is a not so good thing.

The article is here (you probably have to have a NYT account), but here's part of it:

The provision of the law at issue, the "new source review" section, governs the permits required at more than 1,300 coal-fueled power plants around the country and 17,000 factories, refineries and chemical plants that spew millions of tons of pollution into the air each year.

"This is an enormous victory over the concerted efforts by the Bush administration to dismantle the Clean Air Act," Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, whose office led the opposition from the states, said in an interview.

Mr. Spitzer, who is running for governor, said the ruling "shows that the administration's effort to misinterpret and undermine the statute is illegal."

Howard Fox, a lawyer for Earth Justice, which represented six environmental and health groups in the case, called the ruling "a victory for public health," adding, "It makes no sense to allow huge multimillion-dollar projects that drastically increase air pollution without installing up-to-date pollution controls."

Anyway ... The more I read the grumpier I get. Is it really wrong to not want to chew the air I breathe?