NY Times Editorial about the Clean Air Act
"Americans who live in areas with substandard air won another important round last week in the tortured legal battle to force power companies, other industrial polluters and the Bush administration itself to obey the Clean Air Act. In a unanimous decision, a federal appeals court in Chicago upheld a controversial provision of the act that requires older plants to install modern pollution controls whenever they undergo physical or operational changes that increase harmful emissions. "

Judge Posner who wrote the decision is a distinguished conservative jurist. He came down so clearly and sensibly on the side of the law and has given clean air advocates hope that they, and the law itself, may yet prevail.