Twelve states, New York City and the District of Columbia are taking environmental matters into their own hands and suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the Bush administration has failed to control oil refinery emissions. Other states in the suit are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
This suit follows the April 2007 Supreme Court decision that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is a pollutant subject to the Clean Air Act. Thus the goal of the suit, according to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, is to force the EPA to adopt new, strict regulations to reduce oil industry pollution, contributing to global warming. The suit was filed in a federal court for the District of Columbia Circuit, and it is the latest (though certainly not the first) by states critical of the EPA’s record.
Good for you, twelve states et al, for trying to establish that the administration needs to be accountable for making bad environmental decisions that negatively the effect the health of our country and our globe.
via cbsnews
