California threat to sue US govt over ship, aircraft emissions

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — California said Thursday it planned to sue the US government for failing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aircraft, construction and agricultural equipment.

In the latest legal threat from the state against the Environmental Protection Agency, California's Attorney General Jerry Brown said the body was "wantonly ignoring" its duty to set pollution standards.

California is already suing the EPA over the agency's failure to approve the state's proposed standards for vehicle emissions.

"Ships, aircraft and industrial equipment burn huge quantities of fossil fuel and cause massive greenhouse gas pollution yet President (George W.) Bush stalls with one bureaucratic dodge after another," Brown said in a statement.

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