 | US states sue EPA for `failing to act upon` vehicle emissions
Attorneys general from 17 states, the City of New York, the City of Baltimore, the District of Columbia, and 13 environmental advocacy groups have asked the US Court of Appeals here to order the US Environmental Protection Agency to respond to last year`s ruling on greenhouse gas emissions in the case of Massachusetts v. EPA. That ruling, which the US Supreme Court issued April last year, required the EPA to make a decision on whether to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the federal Clean Air Act. A year later, the EPA has not issued a decision. The court filing ... |
 | Environmental laws waived to build 470-mile border fence with Mexico
The US Department of Homeland Security says it is issuing two waivers of environmental laws to expedite security improvements at the border of the United States and Mexico. Congress gave the Secretary of Homeland Security authority to waive all legal requirements necessary to expeditiously install additional physical barriers and roads at the border to deter illegal activity.
`Criminal activity at the border does not stop for endless debate or protracted litigation,` said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. `Congress and the American public have been adamant that they want and expect ... |
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