Give clean cars a green light

If state legislators approve the Environment North Carolina-backed Clean Cars bill, North Carolina could see greater numbers of cleaner, greener cars in showrooms. But first, proponents have to get past the Bush administration, which refused last December to green-light the Clean Cars program.

In March, Environment North Carolina joined a lawsuit designed to force the Bush EPA to approve the program. Our attorneys filed the suit in the wake of the EPA’s Dec. 19 denial of a Clean Air Act waiver for California and 12 other states to implement global warming pollution standards for cars and trucks—a decision made over the objections of the EPA’s own legal and scientific staff. Congress is also investigating.

“The Bush EPA might be in global warming denial, but North Carolinians and the rest of the American people are not,” said Elizabeth Ouzts for Environment North Carolina.