Pelosi backs state auto pollution rules - AP

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Crosspost from GD Politics thread:
Draft House bill would ax California's new emissions laws

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Source: Associated Press

Last updated June 5, 2007 5:37 p.m. PT

Pelosi backs state auto pollution rules

By ERICA WERNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will oppose a proposal by
fellow Democrats that would block her state of California and others
from imposing landmark greenhouse gas reductions on automakers.

Pelosi issued a statement late Tuesday, a day after the measure tucked
into a draft bill by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., came to light. Boucher's
plan drew angry opposition from environmentalists, California legislators
and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration.

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"Any proposal that affects California's landmark efforts to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions or eliminate the EPA's authority to regulate
greenhouse gas emissions will not have my support."

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The measure would prohibit the head of the Environmental Protection
Agency from issuing a waiver needed for a state to impose auto
pollution standards "designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

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