Words, however shaped, must reflect deeds in the end. Otherwise the empire of slogans and false emotional triggers will eventually implode.
California Attorney General and former Governor Jerry Brown has moved for summary judgment against the automakers who filed suit to block California’s law requiring the sharp curtailing of tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases. This morning he requested a status conference with Judge Anthony Ishii, the Fresno-based federal judge who is hearing the case.
Ishii had placed the case on hold while underlying issues were addressed in yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court case holding that greenhouse gases are covered as pollutants by the Clean Air Act.
Brown said that the court, by ruling that the Clean Air Act applies to emissions that cause climate change, strengthened California's defense of its groundbreaking law requiring new vehicles sold in the state to meet gradually tighter standards for greenhouse gases, starting with the 2009 models.
The ruling "makes it very clear that California has a right to regulate greenhouse gases,'' since the federal government has historically allowed the state to exceed federal standards in regulating air pollutants.
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