10 States Sue EPA Over Global Warming

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10 States Sue EPA Over Global Warming
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060427/ap_on_go_ot/global_warming_states

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1. cong to all states-esp WIS!1

[Serial Mom]

2. These states should call themselves PROGRESSIVE!

:applause::applause::applause:

We need more progressive states to join!