BushCo says F**k no to CA emission standards

BushCo said it actually to 17 states in all. This little Caesar wants all the control, all of the time it seems. Excuse me whilst I toss my cookies over this latest, fresh hell perpetrated by the Bush Cartel. From the NYT article:

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.

The E.P.A. administrator, Stephen L. Johnson, said the proposed California rules were pre-empted by federal authority and made moot by the energy bill signed into law by President Bush on Wednesday. Mr. Johnson said California had failed to make a compelling case that it needed authority to write its own standards for greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks to help curb global warming.

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