OPB News: States File Suit Over EPA's CO2 Regulations

From OPB News, April 3, 2008

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The Los Angeles Times reported that EPA also had drawn up a draft regulation to curb greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, but that too was stalled after industry lobbyied the White House.

Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers, who's retiring next year, says the EPA never left the starting line, and time is running out. His possible successors agree.

State Representative Greg Macpherson called climate change the greatest environmental challenge of our times.

Greg Macpherson: "Obviously what's happening is the Bush Administration is resisting the initiatives that have been developed at the state level to press forward on the response to global warming because they don't like it."

Macpherson disagrees with EPA sentiment that climate change is strictly a national and international issue.

Greg Macpherson: "I think all levels of elected officials need to weigh in on this, and particularly when the federal government drags its feet and fails to act, we need to take action at the state level."

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