HARRISBURG--Governor Edward G. Rendell appeared yesterday before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works to underscore why California's waiver request to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles is so important to the Pennsylvania.
On Dec. 19, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson denied California's request for a waiver that would have allowed it to implement stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars than the federal government. The standards could have been put into effect as
early as 2009.
Pennsylvania has adopted the stricter California emission rules, but cannot realize greenhouse gas reductions from the rules unless California is permitted by the EPA to enforce that portion of its clean vehicle program.
The Governor said Pennsylvania contributes about 1 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, with approximately 25 percent of that total coming from transportation, and that the reductions the commonwealth would realize under the California rule exceed what is possible using the federal standards.
A comparison by California found that if Pennsylvania could cut greenhouse gases from automobiles using the California regulation rather than the federal standard, it would prevent an additional 2.2 million metric tons per year of climate changing gases from reaching the atmosphere by 2016, and 6.6 million metric tons per year by 2020.
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They and their rich allies and corrupt Congress-people have fatally confused Capitalism with Democracy.
Sincerely, Robert Bruce
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