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I was just catching my breath after all the work on the Energy Bill and now this!!!

 have just received some outrageous news.
Moments ago, the Environmental Protection Agency denied California's waiver request to cut global warming pollution from automobiles.
Seventeen other states plan to implement similar programs. EPA's action today is nothing more than a heavy handed stroke to limit the authority of states to fight global warming and protect our environment.
Send an email to EPA administrator Stephen Johnson right now and join me in condemning this decision.
This is the first time EPA has ever denied a waiver request under the Clean Air Act. It is a major blow to our efforts to cut global warming pollution from cars.
The administration is putting the brakes on state action to address the global warming crisis.
Doing nothing about global warming is bad enough -- but going out of your way to block the leaders who are trying to solve this is an outrage.
Send an email today.
Three landmark court rulings earlier this year offered a clear legal path for EPA to grant the waiver. In April, the Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant covered under the Clean Air Act and that the EPA has the clear obligation to protect Americans from global warming.
More recently, in separate cases, a federal judge in Vermont and another in California rejected efforts by automakers to repeal the state emissions laws. In these decisions, the judges made clear that states can pass laws under the Clean Air Act to limit pollution from tailpipes, but left it to EPA to grant a waiver allowing states to proceed.
The federal courts also dismissed automakers' claims that they did not have the technology to meet such standards.
In his December ruling, California Judge Anthony Ishii wrote:
Given the level of impairment of human health and welfare that current climate science indicates may occur if human-generated greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, it would be the very definition of folly if EPA were precluded from action.
We have been waiting two years for EPA to decide on this waiver request. Until today, EPA had granted all 50 previous waiver requests over the last 40 years.
I will be working with my Environmental Defense colleagues and with the rest of the environmental community to explore all legal avenues to fight this decision. We will make sure to update you on those developments.
In the meantime, please send an email today to EPA administrator Johnson expressing your outrage over today's decision.
Thank you for all that you do,

Join me in emailing this message:
I am profoundly disappointed in your decision to deny California's waiver request to cut global warming pollution from automobiles. It's an outrage.

This decision is not based on science or the law. Indeed, the science tells us we must take urgent action to dramatically cut our global warming pollution or face potentially catastrophic consequences.

In April, the Supreme Court gave EPA full legal authority to not only grant this waiver but to take global warming a lot more seriously than your agency has to date.

In the last 40 years, EPA has granted all 50 previous waiver requests by states to clean up air pollution. Your decision demonstrates a blind eye to the urgent threat of global warming.

I am deeply troubled by your decision and will do everything I can to support efforts to overturn it.

Go to this link to send a message!
http://action.environmentaldefense.org/campaign/EPA_decwaiver

Thanks!
Peace,
Frank Knight

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