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...court cases have recognized the right of states to regulate CO2 as a pollutant like any other. The fact that at international climate meetings the White House has actually advertised state efforts like California's as evidence of American action on global warming only adds to suspicions that the EPA's ruling is essentially political. "If dealing with the most serious environmental threat of our time in our biggest state tackling its largest source of greenhouse gas pollution isn't extraordinary and compelling, I don't know what those words mean," says Marston...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sharply criticized the EPA, and announced that the state would seek to overturn the decision in court. They'll have a strong case - Johnson's own lawyers in the EPA argued that the agency would be unable to defend the move, the Washington Post reported. But it's likely to take half a year or more for the case to make its way through the courts, delaying efforts to control greenhouse gases. Coming after a string of relative victories for the environmental movement - the first federal climate change bill just passed out of committee...
That wave is already growing throughout the U.S., where state and local governments have taken aggressive steps on global warming in the absence of federal guidance. But the EPA's decision leaves little doubt that the Bush Administration, with a year left in office, has no interest in meeting environmentalists halfway - or perhaps, at all. "This is the Administration showing its true colors," says Robinson. "They're attempting to undercut progress even as they get ready to walk out the White House doors." Change is on its way, but 2008 may be a lost year for global warming...
TIME'S Kristin Kloberdanz sat down with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mary Nichols, chairperson of the California Air Resources Board, in Fresno, California to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denying the right of California and 16 other states to set their own fuel emission standards. The Governor was clearly frustrated though he remained genial. Excerpts from the interview...
TIME: How frustrating was the EPA ruling? SCHWARZENEGGER: I always start with the positive. I was very happy that Congress and that the President signed into law [an improvement for] fuel efficiency of the vehicles by the year 2020. That is the first time in a long time, which, of course doesn't say much for the United States.... But it's good news. So that's number one. It's one of those things that you get that news in the morning and then a few hours later, then you get the real bad news. Which is that they...