A "don't miss" (no matter what your position) article today in the Sunday NY Times Magazine on the Bush administration and the Clean Air Act, titled "Changing all the Rules." The magazine cover features a smokestack with the caption "Up in Smoke: The Bush administration, the big power companies and the undoing of 30 years of clean-air policy." Here is the description of the article published in the apparently not-available-on-line table of contents page from the Magazine:
In this week's issue, a cover article on the quietly revolutionary approach that the Bush administration has taken to clean-air policy. As Bruce Barcott demonstrates, the White House has not only allowed the power industry to weigh in on clean-air policy but has also achieved its goals through obscure regulatory changes and bureaucratic directives, not in the legislative arena. Barcott traced the story through boxes of memos and e-mail messages from little-known but powerful administrators, many of whom came directly to the government from jobs in the industries they are now regulating. ***[Update 4/5/04] Two stories on the regulation of mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants: from the 4/2/04 NY Times, this story headlined "Senators Fault Mercury Pollution Proposal;" from the LA Times of the same date, a story titled "EPA Chief Goes to Bat for Bush Policy." Posted by Marcia Oddi at April 4, 2004 09:18 AM
