California's data challenges EPA

The Golden State filed suit on Wednesday for the right to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from autos.

California's ambitious plan to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions of cars and trucks would be more than twice as effective in reducing such gases by 2016 than the new federal fuel-economy law...Just how effective California's plan would be is important because EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson has specifically cited the new fuel-economy law...as a more effective national approach..when rejecting the state's request for a waiver from the Clean Air Act. Full Story »

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by Beth Wellington - Jan. 6, 2008

I would have iked a list of the states and the environmental groups. The story does, however, outline the legal hurdles the EPA would have to surmount and has an assessment from a former EPA official

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by Ben Ross - Jan. 6, 2008

seems true, however bland. The EPA is in direct violation of it's mission....why is there an EPA....Who are the string pullers....who's era's are reaping the benefits of the status quo.... ....I would like to know what Jodi Reil plans to do about it. How about Mitt Romney.... These reporters don't put the politician backs to the wall.....the hand ringing is getting very little done fast!

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by Andy Jamieson - Jan. 6, 2008

Ample quotations both from the California and from the EPA side. A good example of how to present two points of view without pretending the nonsensical one has equal weight.

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