Fwd: Breaking News - EPA's Outrageous Decision

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Dear Cynthia,

 

 

EPA's decision to deny California's waiver request is an

outrage.

Send an email

today.

I have just received some outrageous news.

Moments ago, the Environmental Protection Agency

denied California's waiver request to cut

global warming pollution from automobiles.

Seventeen other states plan to implement similar programs.

EPA's action today is nothing more than a heavy handed

stroke to limit the authority of states to fight global

warming and protect our environment.

Send an

email to EPA administrator Stephen Johnson

right now and join me in condemning this decision.

This is the first time EPA has ever denied a waiver request

under the Clean Air Act. It is a major blow to our efforts to

cut global warming pollution from cars.

The administration is putting the brakes on state action to

address the global warming crisis.

Doing nothing about global warming is bad enough -- but going

out of your way to block the leaders who are trying to solve

this is an outrage.

Send an email

today.

Three landmark court rulings earlier this year offered a

clear legal path for EPA to grant the waiver. In April, the

Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant covered

under the Clean Air Act and that the EPA has the clear

obligation to protect Americans from global warming.

More recently, in separate cases, a federal judge in Vermont

and another in California rejected efforts by automakers to

repeal the state emissions laws. In these decisions, the judges

made clear that states can pass laws under the Clean Air Act to

limit pollution from tailpipes, but left it to EPA to grant a

waiver allowing states to proceed.

The federal courts also dismissed automakers' claims that

they did not have the technology to meet such standards.

In his December ruling, California Judge Anthony Ishii

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.

We have been waiting two years for EPA to decide on this

waiver request. Until today, EPA had granted all 50 previous

waiver requests over the last 40 years.

I will be working with my Environmental Defense colleagues

and with the rest of the environmental community to explore all

legal avenues to fight this decision. We will make sure to

update you on those developments.

In the meantime, please send an email

today to EPA administrator Johnson

expressing your outrage over today's decision.

Thank you for all that you do,Fred KruppPresident, Environmental Defense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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That's sad but as long as Bush and his cronies will be at the top, we can not expect anything better. These people don't care about environment California and other states have to wait for a change in the White House.

 

Barbara

 

 

 

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