As suspected, U.S. EPA employees last year told agency Administrator Stephen Johnson that California had "compelling and extraordinary conditions" that would justify a federal waiver allowing the state to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from autos, according to EPA documents reviewed by Senate staffers this week. Nonetheless, Johnson denied the state that waiver in December. The EPA wanted to keep the incriminating documents out of the public sphere, but staffers for California Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) released the information. Boxer has a Senate hearing on the matter scheduled for today, at which Johnson is expected to testify -- and be roasted.
source: Associated Press, The Detroit Free Press
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rong Posted 6:33 am
24 Jan 2008
Also, you gotta love the logic of the EPA chief. He says the law allows him the flexibility to make these decisions, even if it means he's going against the recommendations of his own staff, who make it clear that if EPA gets sued on this, they will lose. More taxpayer money down the drain. So, I guess, no matter how idiotic his decisions might be, the law says it's ok. Well, we had a disaster management chief who knew nothing about disaster management, I guess it's ok to have an EPA chief who doesn't know what the letters of his department stand for, especially the "Protection" part.
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