The first sign, and among the most troubling ones, of the gravity of the Bush administration's intent to free power plants and oil refineries from 26-year-old anti-pollution laws comes from the office of Gov. Michael Leavitt of Utah. He's President Bush's choice to take over the Environmental Protection Agency. And his own director of air quality, Rick Sprott, is adamantly opposed to the notion that these companies can upgrade their plants without having to install additional anti-pollution devices.
So are many other state officials, including state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. They're defending a critical provision in the 1977 Clean Air Act. Without what's known …
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