10 Quotes by John Walke

This really has very little to do with the hurricanes or relief efforts or even refiners. This is deregulation pure and simple,

This radical proposal is a 180-degree flip-flop from what the administration has been arguing in court. Instead of protecting public health, now EPA wants to protect the polluters. The proposal would completely sabotage clean-air law enforcement, and it would be open season for power plants to pollute even more than they do now.

Irish eyes are surely smiling - and we all will be breathing easier - with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. This is about as thorough a rebuke a court can give.

Irish eyes are surely smiling -- and we all will be breathing easier -- with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. The court recognized the blarney in the administration's plan to gut a key part of the Clean Air Act and rejected it. Now thousands of dirty facilities will not be able to pollute more.

The action is clearly designed to cripple ongoing cases.

Streamlining is one thing. Amputation surgery is another -- and that's what we're talking about here.

The Bush administration was clearly humiliated by its unwillingness to follow the scientific recommendations. Johnson found himself making a political decision over the strenuous objections of the outside experts and frustrations of inside scientists. He appeared to be torn between observing a scientific consensus and honoring his political obligations to the trucking, power-plant, and other fuel-burning industries.

It was terse and highly effective, written for people without much time by a person who controls the purse strings for the Republican Party.

It's pretty clear this plan is out of bounds. It's also clear the regional directors found it to be extreme.