As everyone knows, California has stricter laws governing emissions than the country as a whole. And as an effect, 12 other states have adopted their stricter emissions laws.

Now, California is requesting they be able to make their standards even stricter. What they’re proposing is to cut greenhouse gases by one third by the year 2016– “double the reductions that would be achieved by the new fuel economy standards contained in last year’s energy bill, the best the federal government has been able to do so far.”

So what’s the hold up on allowing California to do so? Well, you see, what had happened was…

Even though the Bush administration is now admitting that, well, there might be something to this whole greenhouse gas thing, they are still stuck on not doing anything about it. Why do we keep getting stumped by the fed?

Read the article from NY Times here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/0…