Federal judge says California can regulate greenhouse gases from cars, tosses automakers' suit

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Today a federal judge rejected the auto industry's lawsuit challenging California's authority to regulate GHG emissions.

The controversial auto emissions law that California passed back in 2004 got its first day in court...and won!  Today, U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Ishii <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/12/BA9QTSTAB.DTL" title="Federal Judge Gives CA the OK">rejected the auto industry's lawsuit</a>, saying that California IS able to enforce mandatory GHG emission reductions on cars, as long as the EPA approves.That is an entirely separate hurdle that the state is currently battling.  The EPA has been considering California's request for a waiver of federal pollution standards since December 2005, and the state has filed suit over the delay.The agency has promised a decision by the end of the year. 9 application/xml false auto California emissions EPA GHG Federal judge says California can regulate greenhouse gases from cars, tosses automakers' suit The auto industry's lawsuit challenging the state of California's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles was rejected Wednesday by a federal judge. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20071212-1119-autoemissions-california.html Federal judge gives California OK to limit cars' greenhouse gases California's groundbreaking law limiting auto emissions of gases that contribute to global warming passed its first court test today when a federal judge rejected car industry arguments that the measure conflicts with federal law. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/12/BA9QTSTAB.DTL Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jwuebben 74.202.198.130 false true false false true 205814 false false true false false false true 107524 blog blogsite/Enviance/web