10 States Sue EPA Over Global Warming

10 States Sue EPA Over Global Warming WASHINGTON, April 27, 2006 (AP / CBS)

Quote 'We feel it's incumbent on EPA to regulate carbon emissions from those power plants now in order to help us get our arms around global warming.' Marc Violette,a spokesman for New York Attorney General Eliott Spitzer

(AP) Ten states fired a new legal salvo at the federal government Thursday in a long-running court battle over global warming and pollution from power plants.

The states, joined by environmental groups, sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its decision not to regulate carbon dioxide pollution as a contributor to global warming.

New York, California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin filed the lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The states, led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, want the government to require tighter pollution controls on the newest generation of power plants.

'We feel it's incumbent on EPA to regulate carbon emissions from those power plants now in order to help us get our arms around global warming,' said Spitzer spokesman Marc Violette.

Also joining the lawsuit are the cities of Washington and New York, as well as Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club.

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This has been dragging on since 1999, with the EPA refusing to address the science involved, either pro or con, but just trying to dodge the subject.

In 2003, the EPA turned down the original petition. In explaining its decision, EPA never questioned whether the scientific evidence regarding the pollutants' effects fell short of the 'may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare' standard stated in the Act. Rather, the agency simply ignored that standard and instead relied on various 'policy' considerations not mentioned in section 202(a)(1). (App. 82-88.)

The appeals court supported the EPA, but Judge Tatel's dissent pointed out that 'In effect, EPA has transformed the limited discretion given to the Administrator under section 202

The way to fix it is to build nuclear power plants which do not produce

CO2 which you then have to figure out how to scrub out of the air.

take a look at Living on Earth:

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I too am a proponent of PBR reactors. BTW, I have no connection with 'Green Energy' in spite of what Rogers Rice Krispies tell him.