Posted on 11/25/2006 9:06:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON — The polar icecaps are melting, summers growing hotter and hurricanes becoming more powerful, but the Bush administration has insisted it cannot regulate the gases that many believe are responsible.
On Wednesday, a coalition of 12 states, led by California and Massachusetts, will try to persuade the Supreme Court that the nation's environmental regulators have the legal authority and responsibility to control greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming — which many scientists describe as the biggest environmental threat to the planet.
It is a rare day when state lawyers travel to Washington hoping to win new powers for the federal government. As David Bookbinder, a Sierra Club lawyer, noted, "How often do federal authorities insist they lack the authority to do something?"
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The case before the Supreme Court tests that conclusion. It begins with a simple question: Is carbon dioxide an "air pollutant" under the Clean Air Act? The answer may determine not only whether federal regulators must tackle global warming, but also whether California and other states may do so on their own.
Four years ago, California adopted stricter rules. The state Legislature declared its intent to "achieve the maximum feasible and cost-effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions" from motor vehicles. These standards for new cars and trucks are to take effect in 2009.
The California way
Because of California's notorious smog problem, Congress permitted the Golden State to adopt stricter exhaust standards for cars and trucks under a special provision in the federal air pollution laws of the 1970s. Other states are allowed to follow California's lead, and 10 — ... — have plans to do so.
"Global warming is a national and international crisis. And even if the federal government won't do anything, many states will," said California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer, ...
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It's not that Lockyer is a moonbeam - - he may well be - - it's that he's stupid. In 2006, if a career politician is not aware that the "green" movement is nothing more than a front for the global socialists, then that politician is an idiot, unless he/she supports global socialism. Oh....
I hereby declare it illegal for all liberals to exhale. That should solve the carbon dioxide problem that the left is always whining about.
Al Gore Reveals That Cigarettes Cause Global Warming
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2006/09/al_gore_reveals.html
Isn't the job of the supremes. or activist judges.
That's a good thing - - those refugees certainly won't be the parasites. Massachusetts, in fact, is likely to turn into even more of a parasite magnet now that the Massholes have elected a Democrat governor..
Send some down to Pennsylvania. Massachusetts is a hopeless toilet so if we can save a couple of other states with its refugees, then why not? That is, as long as the scum who continually elect politicians like that fat drunk Kennedy and that gigolo goofball Kerry stay right where they are....
If anyone from my state does anything but PROMOTE global warming they should be recalled.
If they really, really want to save energy, reduce emissions, help the po' get back on their feet, they should repeal the Law of Gravity...That'll get them off their arses.
I think it's more likely Kerry is alreay looking for his next jackpot.
Those intangible, feel good issues that the Dems like to tackle.
THESE PEOPLE ARE EFFING IDIOTS - ENOUGH SAID
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