EPA: Warming Not Unique to Calif.

(WASHINGTON)


In a 48-page document describing the reasoning behind its December decision, the EPA argues that California doesn’t have the “compelling and extraordinary conditions” required for a waiver under the Clean Air Act, because the rest of the nation also suffers the effects of global warming.

“In my judgment, the impacts of global climate change in California, compared to the rest of the nation as a whole, are not sufficiently different to be considered ‘compelling and extraordinary conditions’ that merit separate state GHG (greenhouse gas) standards for new motor vehicles,” says the document, which was signed by EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson and will be published in the Federal Register.

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