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US states take agency to court over emissions standards
Exactly one year after the US Supreme Court ruled that the federal Environmental Protection Agency must make a decision on whether it can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, a group of states and pressure groups are to return to the courts in an attempt to force the agency to comply with the ruling
Critics of the agency say that it has embarked on a policy of "obfuscation and deception" to avoid having to take action on global warming
"The EPA's failure to act in the face of these incontestable dangers is a shameful dereliction of duty,"
joined by 17 other states
variety of municipal authorities
"While EPA has spent seven years finding new and creative ways to delay, obfuscate, deceive, block action in the states, and otherwise refuse
combined with a nearly decade-long trail of broken promises from President Bush
clipped from: www.guardian.co.uk