REPUBLIK TO SUE EPA OVER C20!

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Schwarzenegger Vows to Sue EPA

Another Court Battle Looms Over Vehicle CO2 Emissions

California has vowed to take the Environmental Protection Agency to

court - for the third time - over its effort to reduce greenhouse

emissions from vehicles.

Wednesday, the EPA rejected California's effort to regulate greenhouse

gases from vehicles, a decision that will keep as many as 17 other

states from following suit. The EPA argued that the increased fuel

economy standards approved by Congress and signed by President Bush

are a more cohesive, fair national strategy for tackling greenhouse

gas emissions from vehicles. More than 50% of the U.S. population, and

45% of new car buyers, would have been affected by California's law,

had it been adopted in California and the other states, according to

Environmental Defense.

California's law, which would require a 30% reduction in greenhouse

gas emissions by 2016, was passed in 2003, and it requested the Clean

Air Act waiver it needed from the EPA in 2005. When the EPA rejected

that lawsuit, California joined other states in a case that went to

the Supreme Court, leading to a landmark decision this spring that

stated that the EPA has the right and responsibility to regulate

greenhouse gases as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Months later,

with no decision forthcoming, California sued again to force the EPA

to make its decision public, which it did Wednesday.

Now, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vowed to sue again.

"California sued to compel the agency to act on our waiver, and now we

will sue to overturn today's decision and allow Californians to

protect our environment," he said.

(A federal court also sided with the states in New Hampshire.)

According to Environmental Defense, these are the other states that

had vowed to adopt California's law if approved: Arizona, Colorado,

Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New

Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,

Utah, Vermont and Washington.

Here's how others reacted to the decision:

"This decision is like pulling over the fire trucks on their way to

the blaze," said Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense "For

40 years, EPA administrators have recognized the important role that

California plays in innovating new standards to fight pollution."

"The Bush Administration has repeatedly blocked federal and

international action on global warming. When the states took action,

the Administration chose to stifle true progress on preventing global

warming and protecting our children's heritage," said House Speaker

Nancy Pelosi. "The threat of climate change to California's

communities, coastline, ecosystems, water supply and health of its

citizens is clear and compelling. Two federal courts have ruled that

California has the legal right to set its own greenhouse gas standards

for vehicles, and other states have the right to follow."

"The California standards are the single most effective step yet taken

in the United States to curb global warming. By blocking the

California standards, the administration has stuck a thumb in the eye

of 18 governors from both red and blue states who have led the way on

global warming by adopting these landmark rules," said David Doniger,

NRDC Climate Center Policy Director. "California and the 17 other

states have led the way to cut global warming pollution from new

automobiles. Their right to do so has been affirmed by three federal

court decisions this year, including the Supreme Court's landmark

ruling that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant, just like any other.

The new energy law signed by the president today explicitly preserves

this Clean Air Act authority."

"In the eleventh hour of this presidency, the administration is still

doing what it can to throw roadblocks in the way of progress in

combating global warming," said Michelle Robinson, director of the

Union of Concerned Scientists' Clean Vehicles Program. "California has

the legal right to set stringent pollution standards and has

historically led the way for the rest of the country. But the EPA is

blocking California and a dozen other states from protecting their

residents. Administrator Johnson has sadly has chosen politics over

his responsibility to protect public health and the environment."

"By denying this waiver, EPA has not wavered in preserving a national

program that raises fuel economy while reducing carbon dioxide. We

commend EPA for protecting a national, 50-state program," said Dave

McCurdy, CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. "Enhancing

energy security and improving fuel economy are priorities to all

automakers, but a patchwork quilt of inconsistent and competing fuel

economy programs at the state level would only have created confusion,

inefficiency, and uncertainty for automakers and consumers."

For additional context and commentary, read The Daily Green's breaking

news coverage.

Find this article at: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/schwarzenegger-epa-47122001

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has a boutique blend and the pipeline flow is disrupted, will the fact that

we require multiple blends affect the price in other cities to make sure

Atlanta gets their particular blend of gas from another source?

Stop the insanity....

Make (1) regular unleaded, (1) mid-grade, (1) premium.