- April 27, 2006 • 4:23 pm PDT
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Ten states, led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, have taken matters into their own hands and filed suit against the EPA for its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act. The suit comes in response to a ruling last year that power plants do not have to install new environmental protection measures as they modernize. The EPA cheered that ruling, which is curious, given that it is named the Environmental Protection Agency.
We get half of our electricity from burning coal, and the CO2 released by that process comprises 40% of our total annual emissions. The mad scientists at MIT have been working on an effective way to capture and sequester that carbon. Maybe they should be in charge of environmental protection.
