NYC, 8 States Sue to Curb Global Warming

[Judi Lynn]

NYC, 8 States Sue to Curb Global Warming
By MARK JOHNSON
The Associated Press

July 21, 2004 6:18 AM

ALBANY, N.Y. - Attorneys general from eight states and New York City are stepping into the debate over global climate change, vowing to force the nation's largest power companies to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.

Officials from California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, along with New York City's corporation counsel, were to file a public nuisance lawsuit Wednesday in federal district court in Manhattan.

They are trying to pressure five power producers - American Electric Power Co., Southern Co., Xcel Energy Inc., Cinergy Corp. and the federal Tennessee Valley Authority - to clean up their emissions and help curb global warming.

The states that are suing claim those power producers own 174 fossil fuel-burning power plants that produce 646 million tons of carbon dioxide annually - about 10 percent of the nation's total.
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July 21, 2004 6:18 AM

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-07212004-334622.html

[DeepModem Mom]

1. Example of why Republicans don't like lawyers --

More and more, as our government fails us, we're forced to seek remedy through the courts. And with so many courts now controlled by conservative Republicans, remedy there is no sure thing.

[donsu]

2. how can we back up these states?

give money?, hire more lawyers? make noise in our own states?

[struggle4progress]

3. kick

:kick:

[Lindacooks]

4. They're doing the work the federal government should do

If we had a real, elected, intelligent Democratic President and didn't have chimpy squatting in the White House, states wouldn't have to sue for this; the government would be cracking down on the polluters instead of giving them free rein.

Yet another way (are you listening, Nader?) how the two major political parties are completely different.