106 degrees F. at the Packers/Cardinals football game today in Arizona. (Not good for biking, either.)
----------- Forwarded Message ----------- California Set to Sue EPA on CO2 Emissions, Source Says ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- USA: September 22, 2003 LOS ANGELES - California's Attorney General Bill Lockyer looks set to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to force the federal government to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, a source close to the case said last week. The source said the lawsuit would be filed in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C., possibly as early as next week. A spokesman for Lockyer had no immediate comment. Last year attorney generals from 11 U.S. states, including Lockyer, called for the Bush administration to rethink its response to climate change and enact a cap on greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Global warming is thought to be caused by the atmospheric buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide emissions mostly come from the burning of fossil fuels with cars and power plants among the major sources. The White House has sought voluntary cutbacks in emissions, arguing mandatory reductions could cripple the U.S. economy. Attorney Generals from Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut subsequently filed a federal lawsuit in June which argued that the EPA has a mandatory duty to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act. The states are seeking to have carbon dioxide designated as a "criteria pollutant" under the Clean Air Act. The current criteria pollutants, designated as hazardous to human health and subject to EPA standards, are carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen oxides, ozone, particulate matter and sulfur oxides. http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22307/story.htm ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
