STOP GLOBAL WORMING NOW!
It's too late to do anything about the WArming... /smirk
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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Why not pitch this as an illegal immigration issue? The more people that show up for the American good life, the higher American energy use will be.
aahh back to the issue that matters.. the environment. forget terrorism and illegals..
No one will tll me what caused the last ice age to melt... but I am sure it was Bush's fault.
No one will tll me what caused the last ice age to melt... but I am sure it was Bush's fault.
The first sentence as originally submitted to the editor.
Massachusetts, that's the state that the junior jokester Carry represents.
He had a fire hydrant moved so it wouldn't interfere with his guest's entry to his mansh.
Wonder how he'd like to have the glaciers that covered New England back again.
He probably has a plan for that too, bet it's on his web site.
How far back in eco time do these nit wits want to go?
Sorry, how far back do they want others to go.
And all this time I thought it was the beans that caused global warming.
ROFL... indeed.
“Hi, we're lawyers from Mexifornia, and we're here to tell you about the next Ice Age.”
</snicker>
They really think Bush is god, don't they?
Hello... it's nature.
Where's Karl? ... he has the keys to the weather machine.
These states should secede.
I really, really wish they would secede.
Of course these states want to run to the federal government. These politicians have been conditioned to run to the big sows teat when things get hard for them. They don't want the responsibility of making tough decisions or suffer the consequences.
I personally say that global warming is junk science that has been swallowed hook, line, and sinker. Heck, thirty years ago it was a crisis that we were going to slip into another ice age. Sorry to tell these monkey butt morons, but nature does not move that fast. They are guessing and it is gonna cost us poor sap taxpayers.
This scumbag Lockyer likes to talk. I suggest he open some history books and follow the plan that solved "global cooling" back in the '70s.
rest assured that Moonbeam will continue the fight after Lockyer moves on ..
Of course, these states want TO RUN the federal government.
yitbos
Time to regulate mother nature. Time to gain more control...and more....and more....and more...
s&^rew Mass and cali/mexica
s&^rew Mass and cali/mexica
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