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...illusions about the Bush Administration. From a 2001 decision to weaken regulations on arsenic in drinking water to its antagonistic performance at last week's U.N. climate change talks in Bali, the White House has consistently opposed green goals. But Wednesday's move by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denying California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles was an unpleasant surprise, even by Bush standards. The announcement, made by EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, temporarily torpedoes state efforts led by California to drastically reduce CO2 emissions from cars by treating...
...EPA did not return requests for comment...
...site, MapEcos.org, compiles data from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and company reports to show the type and quantity of pollution that over 20,000 companies release into the air each year. Users visiting the site can zoom in on a map of the United States to view information about contaminants in their town...
...EPA began releasing air pollutant data for certain industries in 1987 through the Toxics Release Inventory Program. The Agency expanded the program over the course of the 1990s and made the data available through spreadsheets and maps on the EPA Web site...
...VERDICT The EPA has promised to act by year's end, but the state wants to give the industry time to redesign 2009 models. If California wins, about a dozen other states say they will follow suit with emissions-level laws...