California To Sue Bush Administration Over Law To Limit Emissions

[babylonsister]

California To Sue Bush Administration Over Law To Limit Emissions
by Bob Egelko

California will sue the Bush administration next week to demand action on a long-stalled request to let the state limit auto emissions of gases linked to global warming, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office said Friday.

“We’ve just waited too long” for a decision from the Environmental Protection Agency, said Schwarzenegger’s press secretary, Aaron McLear.

The state asked the EPA in December 2005 for permission to enforce the California law, the model for statutes passed later in 11 other states. The EPA’s approval is needed for California to implement a law more stringent than federal clean-air standards, and the agency has granted every such request California has made over the past 30 years.

The EPA held a public hearing in May and has promised a decision by the end of the year. But McLear said the state has run out of patience and will go to court Wednesday, the deadline that Schwarzenegger set in April.

“There’s really no excuse at this point why we shouldn’t be granted a waiver,” McLear said. He said the state’s case was strengthened in April when the U.S. Supreme Court, in a suit filed by California and other states against the EPA, “agreed with the rest of the world that greenhouse gas emissions are bad for the air.”

The suit will be filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court, said state Attorney General Jerry Brown.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/20/4705/

[pinto]

1. Yeah. Good move CA, and AG Brown.

:kick:

[DesertRat]

2. Way to go CA!

[bliss_eternal]

3. Schwarzeneggers actions would go farther with me...

...if this wasn't the same asshat that enabled the HUMMER rollouts several years ago. :eyes: Apparently he thinks everyone's memories are as short and flawed as his. We wouldn't have those obnoxious vehicles on the road if not for him.

That and the fact that our smoking laws are supposed to apply to everyone but him, makes this seem yet another act of a hypocrite and a liar.

I applaud the effort for the sake of California's air and environment. But the guy behind it can kiss my progressive ass.