National and world leaders are now considering global warning as the No. 1 threat to the planet, and the federal government is not responding to the cries for help.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sued the Bush administration on Thursday because they are not giving California permission to tighten up on standards for automakers in his attempt to curb global warming.
"We are now ready to implement the nation's cleanest standards for vehicle emissions, and we cannot do that, of course, until the federal government gives us a waiver," Schwarzenegger said at a Capitol news conference. "Our health and our environment are too important to delay any longer."
Schwarzenegger has been waiting for almost two years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to give him the go ahead to proceed with his plan.
The urgency to move forward is a much needed one. The climate change has been the cause of the droughts in California in 2006 and 2007. It was also responsible for the record rains two years earlier. The changes have been dramatic and have not gone unnoticed.
The governor says he is willing to "sue and sue agian" until California gets permission. Global warming is definitley getting serious.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-fi-warm9nov09,1,3860.story?coll=la-news-environment&ctrack=2&cset=true
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