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States Suing EPA Over Global Warming
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 02, 2008 04:09pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 2, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By JAY LINDSAY
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; 2:13 PM
BOSTON -- Officials of 18 states are taking the EPA back to court to try to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush administration for inaction on global warming.
In a petition prepared for filing Wednesday, the plaintiffs said last April's 5-4 ruling required the Environmental Protection Agency to decide whether to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide, from motor vehicles.
The EPA has instead done nothing, they said.
"The EPA's failure to act in the face of these incontestable dangers is a shameful dereliction of duty," Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
The petition asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to require the EPA to act within 60 days.
In last year's decision, the Supreme Court ruled the EPA has the authority to regulate emissions from new cars and trucks under the Clean Air Act, and said the reasons the EPA gave for declining to do so were insufficient.
EPA spokesman Jonathan Shradar said the Supreme Court required the agency to evaluate how it would regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and other vehicles but set no deadline. |
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