October 11, 2009

New York joins coalition to fight global warming - EmpireStateNews.net(global warming news)

NEW YORK - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he is leading an 18-state coalition to defend a decision by President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that grants states the right to regulate global warming pollution from automobiles. The coalition is opposing a lawsuit brought by the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) and the U. On June 13, 2009, the EPA granted a Clean Air Act waiver to California, allowing it - and other states such as New York - to implement global warming pollution emission standards for cars. My office will continue to fight aggressively to defend New York’s right to set pollution emission standards for cars and take other actions necessary to combat climate change. The coalition is moving to intervene on the EPA’s behalf in a challenge to the EPA waiver decision that was filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on September 8, 2009.

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