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EPA releases unconvincing justification for denying California waiver

Posted at 9:54 AM on 29 Feb 2008

For the long wait that preceded it, the U.S. EPA's just-released justification for disallowing California to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions is rather anticlimactic. The 48-page document argues that California lacks the "compelling and extraordinary conditions" required for special regulatory permission, because the rest of the nation is also affected by climate change. Critics of the EPA (including the agency's own staff) challenge that interpretation -- and say that California's long coastline, massive agricultural industry, and propensity for wildfires do make it more vulnerable to climate-change effects than other states.

sources: Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal

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Fire and or brimstone

Of course California is more profoundly impacted by the effects of climate change. California is one of the biggest states in the country. If California was a nation, it would be the ninth largest in the world (in terms of acreage). What California should do is withdraw from The Union and self-govern. That would show 'em who's boss. Besides since all our weather comes from the west, wouldn't it be wise to have the western states be the cleanest running? They can burn all the coal they want in Maryland. Screw The British, and The French. To hear more about my presidential candidacy, please click that link down there..

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billy dave

by billydave at 12:56 PM on 29 Feb 2008

Was it Anticlimactic, or Anti-Climatic?

The State of Denial in the W Administration is evidently larger, for the time being, than even the State of California. They've never been known to be swayed by the facts before (witness so many other decisions documented in Grist pages); why should they start now?

Only 11 more months of such idiocy to go...

Moving toward sustainability with hopefulness, one revolution at a time.

by 2wheeler at 10:37 AM on 03 Mar 2008

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