Calif. suit on car greenhouse gases dismissed - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Calif. suit on car greenhouse gases dismissed
Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:56pm EDT

By Adam Tanner

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge tossed
out a lawsuit by California's attorney general on Monday
seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from six automakers
for damaging the state with climate-changing greenhouse
gases.

Martin Jenkins, a federal judge in the Northern District of
California, said the issue of global warming should be
decided in the political rather than legal arena.

"The Court finds that injecting itself into the global
warming thicket at this juncture would require an initial
policy determination of the type reserved for the
political branches of government," Jenkins wrote in
approving the automakers' motion to dismiss the case.

The suit, filed in September, targeted General Motors
Corp, Ford Motor Co, Toyota Motor Corp, the U.S. arm of
Germany's DaimlerChrysler AG and the North American
units of Japan's Honda Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co Ltd.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1736580020070917

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1. Well I cannot say that I did not see that coming.