Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gov. Jodi M. Rell of Connecticut railed against the EPA in an op-ed today in the Washington Post. The EPA is STILL preventing states from raising their own auto emissions standards. This is the same case over which the state of California sued the EPA–and won last month. Twelve states are poised to tighten tailpipe standards beyond existing federal law, but for more than a year, the EPA has refused to allow it.
Even after the Supreme Court ruled in our favor last month, the federal government continues to stand in our way. Another discouraging sign came just last week, when President Bush issued an executive order to give federal agencies until the end of 2008 to continue studying the threat of greenhouse gas emissions and determine what can be done about them.
As we blogged, a clear majority of Americans in surveys say they are really worried about climate change. Seven in 10 want more “much more” federal action .
Like gubernatorial cowboys, the two also threatened that if the administration and the EPA continue this way, they will “take legal action and settle this issue once and for all.” Bring it on!
