By AP/KWMU
Springfield, ILL. – The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Attorney General plan to legally challenge President Bush's change in anti-pollution rules.
State EPA Director Renee Cipriano says the new rules would threaten air quality. The changes would make it easier for power plants and factories to make large upgrades without having to install anti-pollution technology.
A spokeswoman for Attorney General Lisa Madison calls the rules an assault on public health.
The new rules would allow improvements worth up to 20% of a plant's total value before pollution-fighting devices are required.