This kind of ridiculousness is what’s gonna prevent us from getting anything done to protect the environment. MOTHERFUCKING LOBBYIST’S
February 29, 2008
EPA Justifies Blocking Calif. Waiver By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday justified blocking California from cracking down on auto emissions by saying the problems of global warming aren’t unique to one state.
The EPA denial also blocked more than a dozen other states from implementing the tailpipe emissions reductions sought by California.
In a 48-page document describing the reasoning behind its much-criticized decision, the EPA argues that California doesn’t have the ”compelling and extraordinary conditions” required for a waiver under the Clean Air Act, because the rest of the nation also suffers the effects of global warming.
”In my judgment, the impacts of global climate change in California, compared to the rest of the nation as a whole, are not sufficiently different to be considered ‘compelling and extraordinary conditions’ that merit separate state GHG (greenhouse gas) standards for new motor vehicles,” says the document signed by EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson.
Environmentalists and California officials disagreed, contending that California has been granted Clean Air Act waivers in the past to deal with problems that are also happening elsewhere, such as diesel pollution.
I like this. Primarily because of the placement.
