Revolt Of The Governors
Editors Desk
Eye on The Markets
by The Washington Post | 5.20.07
Lead or Step Aside, EPA
States Can’t Wait on Global Warming
By Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jodi Rell
It’s bad enough that the federal government has yet to take the threat of global warming seriously, but it borders on malfeasance for it to block the efforts of states such as California and Connecticut that are trying to protect the public’s health and welfare.
California, Connecticut and 10 other states are poised to enact tailpipe emissions standards — tougher than existing federal requirements — that would cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars, light trucks and sport-utility vehicles by 392 million metric tons by the year 2020, the equivalent to taking 74 million of today’s cars off the road for an entire year.