INHOFE FIRES BACK AT DEMOCRATS IN CASE CHALLENGING BUSH NSR REFORMS

Senate environment committee Chairman James Inhofe (R-OK) is attacking recent Democratic legal arguments challenging the Bush administration's new source review (NSR) reforms, arguing in a new brief that Congress never intended to regulate existing power plants under the NSR program. The lawmakers' arguments -- laid out in amicus briefs in State of New York v. EPA -- center on whether Congress intended to require existing plants to eventually implement NSR, which requires state-of-the-art pollution controls when existing plants make major...