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whopis01 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 01:31 PM
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California Sues EPA Over Auto Emissions
Source: Breitbart

California sued the federal government on Thursday to force a decision about whether the state can impose the nation's first greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks.

At issue is California's nearly two-year-old request for a waiver under the federal Clean Air Act allowing it to implement a 2002 state anti-pollution law regulating greenhouse gases.

Eleven other states have adopted California's standard as a way to combat global warming and five others are considering it.

"The longer the delay in reducing these emissions, the more costly and harmful will be the impact on California," the state attorney general's office said in its 16-page complaint.



Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SPL3IG1&show_article=1
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 01:49 PM
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1. You know Ahnold occasionally steps up to the plate
and it really must piss off the GOP.
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