The Bush administration has no chance of getting a fair hearing by the public on anything environmental. The revision of the Clean Air Act regulations is portrayed as a roll-back. This is wrong. The CAA regulations were out of date and difficult at best to comply with. the thing I find amazing is that the CAA revisions that people are screaming to keep in place were protested when George H. W. Bush signed them into law. This article says something interesting:

ALL DEMOCRATS, the attorneys general from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Washington said the Environmental Protection Agency has violated legal requirements that it update an analysis of air pollutants from power plants. The analysis hasn’t been updated in at least 20 years, even though the Clean Air Act requires the agency to perform such an examination every eight years, the states said.

Why did Clinton/Gore not update when they were in office?