4 States To Sue For Tougher Emission Rules
California To File Federal Suit Against EPA, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Washington Will Join
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The lawsuit is to be filed in federal court in Washington on Tuesday. It comes 22 months after California first asked the EPA to let the states impose tougher regulations on emissions of greenhouse gases from cars, pickups and SUV's.
"Unfortunately, the Bush administration has really had their head in the sand," California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. said Monday. "In this case, there has been an unreasonable delay."
California wants to implement a 2002 state law that would require automakers to begin making vehicles that emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions by model year 2009. It would cut emissions by about a quarter by the year 2030. But the law can only take effect if the EPA grants the state a waiver under the Clean Air Act.
Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Washington plan to join California's lawsuit against the EPA.
Eight other states - New York, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont - are ready to implement California's emissions standards if it gets the EPA waiver.
According to a new analysis by British climate scientists, the 25 percent reduction in a handful of U.S. states may be far too little, far too late.
CBS News reporter Vicki Barker says the report warns climate change will have a more devastating effect, and will have it much sooner than previously predicted.
According to an article in The Guardian, the United Nations' most recent prediction was that mankind had just eight years to act to stave off the worst effects of global warming. The experts behind the British study say there is less time than that.
I hope political leaders will act on this, because we need to do something fast.
Corinne Le Quere, Climate scientistLe Quere worried his findings might have an adverse effect on the policy makers with the power to legislate change. "My biggest worry is people are discouraged by this and do nothing. I hope political leaders will act on this, because we need to do something fast."
The report lays blame for the unexpectedly rapid rise in greenhouse gas levels to two key factors: China's booming, fossil-fuel-hungry economy, and a reduction in the amount of carbon pollution soaked up by the world's land and oceans.
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Me, I think they''ll say something like "It is solar activity!" or "This comet that used to show up every 2000 years and cool us down with a massive sprinkle of ice water didn''t show up!" or "If the public hadn''t have wanted all of the electricity for those incubators for preemies this wouldn''t have happened!".
I.e., they''ll say "It is not our fault!" and then proceed to build massive habitats that are safely insulated from Earth''s atmosphere; habitats whose air conditioning needs are met by generating plants that vent their waste gases - be they carbon-centric or radioactive - back into Earth''s atmosphere.
And anyone will be able to go there - if they have the $250 million for a basic living unit or are willing to work in exchange for cleaned, cooled air.
"It would cut emissions by about a quarter by the year 2030. "
1/4 by 2030?? LOL too little WAY too late
How is that relevant? Besides, the wildfires are out of control because of our actions. Developing in dangerous areas ... interrupting the natural cycle ...
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,944914,00.html
Global Warming... Global Cooling... it is all just junk science. It is not that hard to understand... The earth actually goes through cycles in the climate.
Go to
http://junkscience.com/
and talk the challenge that they have proposed. If you really think that humans are cauing global warming and you can prove it, they will give you over $100,000.
Me, I think humans aren''t causing it at all.
Gotta name for you: Dr. Robert Statler (''nuff said)
In order to meet California''s proposed requirements, cars will be made smaller and lighter. Can''t fight the laws of physics, folks.
Commercial vehicles will remain the sams size, however. More people will die horible, flaming deaths trapped in their little bitty Califirnia-spec cars. (physics again) This will not happen 50 years from now, or even 5 years from now. It will begin happening the day after fools start buying those cars (will anyone buy them?).
Real people, real deaths. How many people have died of global warming?
Oh, and when it happens, it''ll be George Bush''s fault.
..and China is opening two coal-fired power plants a week....
sorry
$ whois junkscience.com
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Milloy has spent much of his life as a lobbyist for major corporations and trade organisations which have poisioning or polluting problems. He originally ran NEPI (National Environmental Policy Institute) which was founded by Republican Rep Don Ritter (who tried to get tobacco industry funding) using oil and gas industry funding. NEPI was dedicated to transforming both the EPA and the FDA, and challenging the cost of Superfund toxic cleanups by these large corporations.
So let''s get real here and stop the phony strawman tactics. Some of us aren''t really quite as stupid as the the Corporate *** Steve Milloy''s of the world would have you think.
6 million people on Earth and you think we have NOTHING to do with the pollution? You actually think the gases and pollution we produce will not have some effect?
You foolish ''head-in-the-sand'' conservatives. Get off the couch and take some responsiblity for your actions!
problem solved!
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by slipster01
October 23, 2007 5:39 PM PDT
- how about the automakers stop shipping ANY cars to California? California wants lower-emmision cars, let them make their own.
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See all 24 Commentsproblem solved!