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...TROUBLE Despite its crackdown on vehicle emissions, the Golden State's path to cleaner air is still clogged. In 2005, California passed legislation requiring automakers to cut emissions 30% by 2016, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has yet to exempt the state from the agency's less stringent regulations. Now California is taking the EPA to court, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will "sue and sue again" until the state comes...
...with 2009 models, eventually leading to a 30% reduction in overall global warming emissions by model year 2016. Sixteen other states, both red and blue, have moved to adopt California's standards since, but to implement the legislation, Sacramento needed a routine waiver from the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
...should have been simple - such a waiver has been granted to the nation's most populous state more than 50 times in the past. But for nearly two years, the EPA has delayed making a decision. The federal agency says it needs more time to make the right call; its critics claim the Bush Administration is playing politics. Finally today California ran out of patience, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Attorney General Jerry Brown announced from the steps of the state Capitol that they would sue the EPA, demanding immediate action on the waiver. "California is ready to implement...
...seems to be on solid ground. Though the White House had initially taken the position that the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide was not a pollutant and therefore not covered by the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated that argument in a case taken against the EPA by Massachusetts back in April. That the EPA still hasn't ruled on California's waiver shows that "the administration is just trying to run out the clock on global warming," said Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust...
California's lawsuit wasn't a surprise - the state had actually planned on suing the EPA two weeks earlier, but had delayed the move because of California's wildfires, which themselves pumped up to 8 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. But the ultimate outcome of the lawsuit, and California's attempt to craft far-reaching emission standards, is less predictable. U.S. automakers are waging their own court battles against the regulations, and in September, a U.S. federal judge threw out a California state lawsuit that tried to hold auto manufacturers liable for the damages caused by carbon...