California has made good on its promise to sue the U.S. EPA over the agency's refusal to allow the state to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, and 15 other states have made good on their promise to join in on the litigation. The swarm of states, along with five nonprofit groups, filed suit today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The presumed shared feeling of the group, as stated by California Attorney General Jerry Brown: "The denial letter was shocking in its incoherence and utter failure to provide legal justification for the administrator's unprecedented action."
Runaway Sue
California, 15 other states, and five nonprofits sue EPA over waiver decision 4
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Posted 12:47 PM on 2 Jan 2008
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Greta Posted 8:58 am
02 Jan 2008
There certainly is no shortage of lawyers willing to take on class-action suits.
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Greta Posted 9:02 am
02 Jan 2008
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katwink Posted 10:25 am
02 Jan 2008
"The 15 states joining California in today's suit: Massachusetts, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington."
This information was at the end of the LA Times article linked to this story.
Not sure about non-profits but I could make some good guesses.
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Pathos Posted 4:45 pm
02 Jan 2008
"The petitioners -- the Conservation Law Foundation, Environmental Defense, the International Center for Technology Assessment, the Natural Resources Defense Counsel (sic) and the Sierra Club -- filed the suit in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco."
Enjoy. :)
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