Court Won't Hear EPA Pollution Dispute

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Court Won't Hear EPA Pollution Dispute
May 3, 10:39 AM (ET)

By GINA HOLLAND


WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether the government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVC) had the authority to disregard a demand from Washington to clean up its coal-fired power plants.

The justices had been asked by the Bush administration to step into a dispute over the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency. Justices declined, without comment, to use the EPA's appeal to clarify how conflicts between two executive branch agencies should be handled.

The TVA, which serves more than 8 million people in seven Southern states, had challenged the EPA's authority when it became a target of aggressive Clinton administration initiatives to reduce smokestack emissions from aging coal-fired power plants.

The Bush administration contends that the authority did not have the right to litigate the dispute, over the objection of the attorney general.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040503/D82B5J400.html

(what the heck was this all about?! Was thinking it was a enviro win at first, but it isn't. Shrub admin in-fighting? Self-loathing? Something sneaky I'm missing?)

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1. POS bu$h doesn't give a flying fcuk about the environment...

Everywhere you turn this a$$hole is relaxing rules on every damm Earth destroying industry on the planet.