Federal Bureaucracy Federal Bureaucracy group rates for schools
and districts  Controversy over the Clean Air Act    • In 2008,
George W. Bush changed bureaucratic rules about the enforcement
of the Clean Air Act by the Environmental Protection Agency   •
Controversy over decision revealed power struggle between
executive and legislative branches over control of environmental
policy   • Bureaucracy often becomes entangled in disputes
between Congress and presidents  On 11 March 2008, the White
House issued a brief statement announcing that the "public
health" and "public welfare" air standards set by the
Environmental Protection Agency would hereafter be the same.
Immediately, there was an angry protest. EPA officials
threatened to resign; members of Congress condemned the Bush
administration vehemently; one environmental leader labeled the
president's decision "unprecedented and unlawful."  In many
ways, it appeared to be a typical bureaucratic tempest in a
teapot: a statement wrapped in bureaucratic jargon,