States challenge car emissions ruling - Reuters

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States challenge car emissions ruling
Thu Jan 3, 2008 8:30am EST

By John Crawley

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California and 15 other U.S. states
on Wednesday sought to overturn a Bush administration decision
in December that denied California's attempt to set tough new
standards for auto emissions.

The legal challenge, which was widely expected, returns the
matter to the courts where states have had success recently in
the long-running effort to force the Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA) hand in the fight against global warming.

"The EPA has done nothing at the national level to curb
greenhouse gases and now it has wrongfully and illegally
blocked California's landmark tailpipe emissions standards,
despite the fact that 16 states have moved to adopt them,"
said Jerry Brown, California's attorney general.

California filed the suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
9th Circuit in San Francisco. Fifteen other states joined the
case in a separate motion filed by New York. California
officials believe the courts will act swiftly.

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