Gov. Schwarzenegger Threatens to Sue EPA on Global Warming
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(California – April 25, 2007) Governor Schwarzenegger announced today that a letter will be sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday, April 26, 2007 demanding action on
Even though California requested the waiver from EPA in December of 2005, the agency has refused to grant California’s waiver, even when requested by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA), claiming it had no authority to regulate carbon dioxide from automobiles. Just this month EPA’s logjam was broken by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on April 2nd, 2007 when the Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide was a pollutant that could be regulated by EPA under its Clean Air Act authority.
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