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There is still time for Bush to prove the greens wrong. The next showdown in the environmental wars will be over the regulation of old polluting power plants, a process that is oddly named the "new source review." The current rules stick the older plants with tough emissions guidelines if they modernize, creating a perverse incentive to leave dirty plants unchanged. Bush officials say that the new regulations are only a couple of months away, and they insist that the rules will be considerably more enviro-friendly than activists fear. If the White House doesn't make good on that promise, environmentalists will pounce on the rules the same way they blasted back Bush's attempt to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The fight never ends.