The Daily Background

Ten states are suing the Bush Administration’s Environmental “Protection” Agency over global warming, Associated Press reports:

Ten states fired a new legal salvo at the federal government Thursday in a long-running court battle over global warming and pollution from power plants.

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The states, joined by environmental groups, sued the
Environmental Protection Agency over its decision not to regulate carbon dioxide pollution as a contributor to global warming.

The states, led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, want the government to require tighter pollution controls on the newest generation of power plants.

“We feel it’s incumbent on EPA to regulate carbon emissions from those power plants now in order to help us get our arms around global warming,” said Spitzer spokesman Marc Violette.

The states are New York, California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin (all “blue” states except for New Mexico, which turned “red” in 2004, after being “blue” in 2000). This Administration sure doesn’t care about the environment, and has severely underfunded, fought with, and weakened the EPA over the last 6 years. Hopefully more states will join this lawsuit against Bush’s pro-big-business EPA. Full article.

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