Schwarzenegger Criticizes EPA for Tailpipe Emissions
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor or California, and governor Jodi Rell, the governor of Connecticut, said in the editorial pages of the Washington Post that the Environmental Protection Agency has not done enough to combat global warming. The governors say that the EPA has the ability to regulate greenhouse gases, but did not do so. They also accuse the EPA from preventing states from creating their own standards to regulate emission gases.
"It's bad enough that the federal government has yet to take the threat of global warming seriously, but it borders on malfeasance for it to block the efforts of states such as California and Connecticut that are trying to protect the public's health and welfare," say Schwarzenegger and Rell. The EPA plans this week to decide whether to give California a waiver that would allow them to have standards differing from those of the federal government.
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