{"id":1003,"date":"2003-12-26T09:54:37","date_gmt":"2003-12-26T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1003.html"},"modified":"2003-12-26T09:54:37","modified_gmt":"2003-12-26T14:54:37","slug":"appeals-court-smacks-down-bush-administration-on-clean-air-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/appeals-court-smacks-down-bush-administration-on-clean-air-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court smacks down Bush administration on Clean Air Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, a federal appeals court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A28211-2003Dec24.html\">issued an injunction<\/a> on Christmas Eve against the Bush administration, blocking, at least temporarily, the president&#8217;s efforts to gut the Clean Air Act. The changes were due to be implemented today.<\/p>\n<p>State attorneys general from 12 states &#8212; Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin &#8212; had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/24\/national\/24CND-ENVI.html?hp\">filed suit against the administration<\/a>, arguing that Bush&#8217;s changes to the Clean Air Act would be dangerous to the environment and the public&#8217;s health. The states were joined by environmental and health groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the American Lung Association.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically Bush&#8217;s proposed changes to the Clean Air Act included provisions that would have allowed factories, coal plants, utility facilities, and refineries to replace and\/or repair older equipment without installing additional pollution controls, which can be expensive and are therefore viewed as a burden by business interests.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court&#8217;s ruling did not specifically address the merits of the case against the Bush administration, but halted the proposed changes while the lawsuit moved forward. The three-judge panel did, however, appear to believe that the case challenging the proposed changes to the Clean Air Act would succeed, saying that the plaintiffs &#8220;have demonstrated the irreparable harm [of the rule] and likelihood of success on the merits&#8221; of their case.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like the decision was an early Christmas present for those of who like clean air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, a federal appeals court issued an injunction on Christmas Eve against the Bush administration, blocking, at least temporarily, the president&#8217;s efforts to gut the Clean Air Act. The changes were due to be implemented today. State attorneys general from 12 states &#8212; Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}