Bush shot us down
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
By now you’ve all heard about California’s efforts to regulate smog and pollution, and our efforts to pass our own emissions laws to help cut down on greenhouse gases. Yesterday President Bush and the EPA denied our bid on these proposed legislation, claiming that because Bush had recently signed an energy bill that would help cut down on emissions. Their reasoning? The bill Bush signed into law would be good enough, for them, and that they want a nationwide emissions policy, instead of state by state regulations. The latter half of that would sort of make sense, I guess, but mostly to shipping companies who have smoke-spewing semis crossing state lines on a regular basis.
What’s more frustrating is that 16 other states were considering adopting our laws as their own, too, and that’s just to start with. More could have followed as they watched the results of these proposed laws going into effect, and held the government to higher standards. Governor Schwarzenegger has already vowed to take this issue to court, and it looks to be a long and bitter battle, bleeding over into the next presidency. This may even become a hot topic for the candidates, yet another yardstick to measure Obama and Hilary by. Congress is also expected to speak out on the matter, though they’re sure to get vetoed and it’s not expected that they would be unified enough to overcome the expected veto.
This looks to be a long and bitter fight, so you might want to get comfortable. To read more about the ongoing debate, go here.
