GLIN==> States Sue US EPA over Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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States Sue US EPA over Greenhouse Gas Emissions
http://www.pewclimate.org/node/6162

On August 25, 2008, twelve states filed suit against the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) for violating the Clean Air Act by not regulating 
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil refineries. A Supreme Court ruling 
in 2007 found that the EPA had the power to regulate GHG emissions under the 
Clean Air Act. The suit says that oil refineries account for 3 percent of 
total U.S. energy consumption and about 15 percent of carbon dioxide 
emissions from industrial processes; it seeks to force the EPA to adopt new 
standards to cover these emissions.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is leading the lawsuit filed in the 
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. New 
York is joined in filing the suit by California, Connecticut, Delaware, 
Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, 
Vermont, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia and New York 
City.

State coalitions have previously sued the EPA in pursuit of standards for 
power plant emissions and to uphold states' rights to regulate automobile 
emissions.


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