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...That's what the U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday, when it unanimously ruled that the EPA must be free to set clean-air standards - regardless of the potential expense to corporate polluters forced to clean up their factories. In other words: Enforce the standards, no matter what the cost...
...Clean Air Act, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the Court's strongly worded opinion, "unambiguously bars cost considerations" from the establishment of air standards, "and thus ends the matter for us as well as the EPA." The opinion, as it goes on, leaves little doubt as to the intensity of the Court's convictions. Justices Breyer, Stevens, Souter and Thomas each concurred with the opinion, adding their own sharp language...
...industry groups' key arguments was that the EPA undermined congressional authority by establishing federal air standards. The Justices dismissed that complaint, reversing a federal appeals court decision...
...decision, while largely favorable for the EPA, wasn't all daffodils and sunflowers for the agency. While the Court found for the EPA in almost every aspect of the case, the Justices did come back with a strongly worded suggestion that the agency clarify its ozone level requirements...
...Bush's first "dream week" in office [NATION, Feb. 5]: Perhaps all that chumminess among the White House, Congress and the press is preventing you from noticing that millions of Americans have been horrified every time they have opened the newspaper these past couple of weeks. Relaxing EPA standards to accommodate the energy crisis? Removing funds from international organizations that promote reproductive choice? Muddying those silly constitutional waters that separate church and state? Bush may be garnering "pretty good reviews" from a conservative Congress, but he's preaching to the choir. Don't forget the rest of us. WENDY KAREN...