Bush administration works behind the scenes to BLOCK California on emissions regulation

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: U.S. Trying to Block Calif. on Emissions
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 25, 2007; Page A03

The Bush administration has conducted a concerted, behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to try to generate opposition to California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, according to documents obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

California, along with 11 other states, is hoping to enact rules that would cut global warming pollution from new motor vehicles by nearly 30 percent by 2016. To do so, California needs a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency, a request that has been pending for nearly two years. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has threatened to sue if EPA does not rule on the waiver by Oct.

A flurry of e-mails among Transportation Department (DOT) officials and between its staffers and the White House, released yesterday, highlights efforts that administration officials have made to stir up public opposition to the waiver. Rather than attacking California's request outright, Bush officials quietly reached out to two dozen congressional offices and a handful of governors to try to undermine it.

One May 22 e-mail written by Jeff Shane, undersecretary of transportation for policy, outlined how Transportation Secretary Mary Peters orchestrated the campaign. Peters "asked that we develop some ideas asap about facilitating a pushback from governors (esp. D's) and others opposed to piecemeal regulation of emissions, as per CA's waiver petition," Shane wrote. "She has heard that such objections could have an important effect on the way Congress looks at the issue."...

Some DOT officials expressed discomfort with the campaign. When one government affairs aide in Peters's office who had been making calls to lawmakers questioned whether the department was being too aggressive, an assistant secretary responded, "I think we need to be a bit careful on this." The agency's chief of staff wrote the next day, "The last e-mail isn't a good conversation for email."...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/24/AR2007092401563.html?nav=most_emailed

[lonestarnot]

1. Eeeew that bitch is worried about his precious oil.

[MatrixEscape]

2. How is this news?

The Boosh mis-Administration is totally about working behind the scenes, (and even in front of them) to stop, kill, prevent, destroy, and reverse, anything that is natural or human in our World today. That is the pint and purpose of what the puppet Emperor of the US does and what his long list of complaint cronies convey. Whoever designed him and them hit on a perfect way to make a boot that stomps on a human face, forever!

This is not so much news as it is a boring and redundant statement of facts. Facts that sheeple are so comfortable with that they write tomes of protest, but do little to effect any change in what they observe and complain about ad nauseum.

[Eagle_Eye]

3. California is the country's largest vehicle market

American vehicle manufactures cannot produce a model for California, and a different model for the rest of the country, only one model can be made at a profitable price (and the California emission model cuts into profits). If the vehicles have to meet California emission standards, they will be pretty much the same across America.

When it come to making money for big business, little gorge is right there to help big business. He doesn't care about pollution or wasted resources. Little george bush has a mission to put more money into the pockets of his friends in big business.

[deacon]

4. He dunks his donuts in oil. n/t