Fwd: Breaking News - Huge Victory for Cars and Global Warming

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*** Breaking News *** Breaking News

*** Breaking News***

Dear Cynthia,

 

 

Victory in our efforts to fight global

warming!

I just received some terrific news and I

wanted to share it with you right away.

A federal judge in California today rebuked the auto

industry's attempt to block California and 16 other states from

setting tough new limits on global warming

pollution from automobiles, calling these efforts "the very

definition of folly."

Environmental Defense was a defendant-intervener in the case.

We worked closely with California state officials and several

other environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, Natural

Resources Defense Council, Blue Water Network, Global Exchange,

and Rainforest Action Network.

In the ruling, Federal District Court Judge Anthony Ishii

rejected the auto industry's claim that federal

fuel economy standards preempted the authority of California and

other states to limit global warming pollution from

automobiles.

This ruling comes three months to the day after a similar

ruling by a federal judge in Vermont, and just eight months

after the historic Supreme Court decision in early April that

the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an obligation to

regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act.

These are huge victories. Today's ruling shifts the focus to

the EPA where a decision on whether to grant California's waiver

request to tighten auto emission standards has been pending for

two years.

I have just issued a press statement calling on EPA

Administrator Steve Johnson to immediately grant California's

request to move ahead with this program. All similar California

air pollution requests have been approved. Not one has been

turned down in EPA history.

In his ruling, Judge Ishii alluded to the importance of EPA

granting the waiver. He wrote:

 

Given the level of impairment of human health and welfare

that current climate science indicates may occur if

human-generated greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, it

would be the very definition of folly if EPA were precluded from

action.

 

Environmental Defense played a big role in

these historic court rulings. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to

our General Counsel Jim Tripp and our Regional Director of our

Climate and Air Program Jim Marston, who worked so hard on this

case.

And, as always, I owe you my heartfelt thanks for all

your support. You make our work possible and I can't

thank you enough. Together, we are making progress.

As we look ahead to the new year and the need for a national,

economy-wide cap on global warming pollution, please join me in

celebrating today's terrific news.

Thanks for being part of our work,

 

 

Fred KruppPresident, Environmental Defense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is great! I wish Florida would fight for clean air but you know....Florida is so cheap that they even discontinued emission tests on cars saying that it is too expensive! Can you imagine? What a cheapskate state!

 

Barbara

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I guess all the retired people living there on SS don't want to have to

pay for it. I know Gov. Schwartzeneggar was under pressure from the

Bush admin. to ease up on the new restrictions, and he would not do it!

I'm so happy. He's the only Republican I acutally like, lol. ;-)

 

Cyndi

 

RealSimple , " Barbara " <barbara3 wrote:

>

> This is great! I wish Florida would fight for clean air but you

know....Florida is so cheap that they even discontinued emission tests

on cars saying that it is too expensive! Can you imagine? What a

cheapskate state!

>

> Barbara

>

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Maybe you like him because his wife is a democrat?

LOL

 

Barbara

 

 

 

I guess all the retired people living there on SS don't want to have to pay for it. I know Gov. Schwartzeneggar was under pressure from the Bush admin. to ease up on the new restrictions, and he would not do it! I'm so happy. He's the only Republican I acutally like, lol. ;-)Cyndi