"steve" <misledrkstar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> coughed up nothing worth quoting....
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[ Federal Government under the Bush regime dictator****p is expected
to lose yet another attempt to deny Global Warming and State's Rights ]
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/12/19/153455/67
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/19/AR2007121902012.html?hpid=topnews
GLOBAL WARMING -- EPA BLOCKS 18 STATES FROM REGULATING EMISSIONS:
by
Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, and Ali Frick
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator
Stephen L. Johnson made an announcement late yesterday
denying "California's petition to limit greenhouse gas emissions
from cars and trucks, overruling the unanimous recommendation
of the agency's legal and technical staffs." Under the Clean Air Act,
states -- with permission from the EPA -- can set emissions
standards that are stricter than the ones set by the federal
government. California has been waiting for an EPA waiver since
2005, "and at least 16 other states had been hoping to follow
California's lead." Johnson claimed that the energy bill that
President Bush signed into law yesterday rendered California's
effort to cut gas emissions by 30 percent by 2016 moot. David
Bookbinder, the Sierra Club's chief climate counsel, vowed to
fight the decision. "These guys are 0 and 4 in court, and they're
about to go 0-5," he said of the Bush administration, which has
lost a series of environmental court cases.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said he would sue to
overturn the decision. "It is disappointing that the federal government
is standing in our way and ignoring the will of tens of millions of people
across the nation," he said. http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/8353/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/wa****ngton/13emissions.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=us&adxnnlx=1198263775-80xA/36gg2ptyxS4lNamgw
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