{"id":339,"date":"2007-11-09T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2007-12-13T18:39:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T18:39:27","slug":"california-sues-the-us-federal-government-for-failing-to-regulate-vehicle-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/california-sues-the-us-federal-government-for-failing-to-regulate-vehicle-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"California sues the US Federal government for failing to regulate vehicle emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California has followed due process and now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7086121.stm\">filed suit against the US Federal government&#8217;s failure to endorse California emission laws<\/a>.\u00a0 In April, the US Supreme Court had ruled that the EPA, which had challenged the California law, was wrong to say that it did not have the power to regulate exhaust gases from new cars and trucks. Now the State has filed suit.<\/p>\n<p>It is extraordinary but not surprising that the US is so stubborn about reducing emissions.\u00a0 Extraordinary, because global policy is following science in condemning emissions and trying to reduce them.\u00a0 Unsurprising because the vested interests and current administration generat so much wealth under the current approach.<\/p>\n<p>Well done California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California has followed due process and now filed suit against the US Federal government&#8217;s failure to endorse California emission laws.\u00a0 In April, the US Supreme Court had ruled that the EPA, which had challenged the California law, was wrong to say that it did not have the power to regulate exhaust gases from new cars &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/california-sues-the-us-federal-government-for-failing-to-regulate-vehicle-emissions\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California sues the US Federal government for failing to regulate vehicle emissions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatechange"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-5t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}