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Attorneys Urge EPA to Act on Climate Ruling

January 27, 2008

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley along with attorneys general from 17 states, the Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, and the City Solicitor for Baltimore sent a letter to Stephen L. Johnson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, regarding the agency’s lack of progress in responding to last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA.  

“On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court established EPA’s responsibility to regulate greenhouse gases under the federal Clean Air Act,” said Coakley. “The one-year anniversary of the court’s ruling is fast approaching, and it is long past time for EPA to begin exercising its regulatory authority. Further continued delay is not acceptable.”

Joining Massachusetts in signing the letter were: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.  All of these states, together with the City of New York, and the Mayor and City Council for Baltimore, were either petitioners in Massachusetts v. EPA, or joined amicus briefs in support of the petitioners.

Letter to Stephen L. Johnson; Re:  Massachusetts v. EPA remand

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Will EPA be Forced to Issue a Climate Change Endangerment Finding?

On April 2, 2008, exactly one year after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, 12 states, supported by an additional five states as amicus curiae, as well as the District of Columbia, the cities of New York and Baltimore, and a number of environmental organizations, filed a petition for mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to act on remand within 60 days.

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