Seven Northeastern States Sue the EPA

The EPA is being sued by seven Northeastern states, who are each hoping that the agency will be found negligent in its implementation of the Clean Air Act. There are a number of different actions pending. The states don’t like sneaky procedural changes that don’t treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant and prevent a thorough review of emissions from power plants. The NYT article highlights the poor treatment that the environment gets in this administration. Case in point: the voluntary carbon dioxide control program that the President touted in lieu of the Kyoto Protocol was announced in the cafeteria of the Department of Energy.