TWO REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ATTACK BUSH REGIME'S ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES

Bush and his operatives are starting to get used to high intensity explosives headed their way from Capitol Hill. But getting slammed by two high profile Republican governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger (CA) and Jodi Rell (CT) must have come as a bit of a shock. They co-authored a guest OpEd in today's Washington Post called "Lead or Step Aside, EPA." At least it didn't say "Lead or Step Aside, Chimpy," although they did zero in on an environmental executive order he issued last week as "more of the same inaction and denial" and "unconscionable."

Both governors are threatening to sue the Bush Regime, at least in part for its abysmal record of insincerity and deception on anything and everything pertaining to cleaning up the environment. Their complain stems from the Regime's refusal to take Global Warming seriously and "the malfeasance" in blocking their own efforts to protect their states' health and welfare. This is probably something Bush expects from Henry Waxman and Bernie Sanders, not from Rell and Schwarzenegger.

California, Connecticut and 10 other states are poised to enact tailpipe emissions standards-- tougher than existing federal requirements-- that would cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars, light trucks and sport-utility vehicles by 392 million metric tons by the year 2020, the equivalent to taking 74 million of today's cars off the road for an entire year.

Since transportation accounts for one-third of America's greenhouse gas emissions, enacting these standards would be a huge step forward in our efforts to clean the environment and would show the rest of the world that our nation is serious about fighting global warming.

Yet for the past 16 months, the Environmental Protection Agency has refused to give us permission to do so.

Even after the Supreme Court ruled in our favor last month, the federal government continues to stand in our way.

They also accuse the Bushies of "stonewalling" and "blocking the will of tens of millions of people in California, Connecticut and other states who want their government to take real action on global warming." And they also imply that they don't trust the Bush Regime's commitment to the law! They sound like normal Americans now!