We continue to move closer to climate federalism. From the NYTimes on 11/26 (Battle lines ...):
New York is adopting California's ambitious new regulations aimed at cutting automotive emissions of global warming gases, touching off a battle over rules that would sharply reduce carbon dioxide emissions while forcing the auto industry to make vehicles more energy efficient over the next decade.
The rules, passed this month by a unanimous vote of the State Environmental Board, are expected to be adopted across the Northeast and the West Coast. But the auto industry has already moved to block the rules in New York State, and plans to battle them in every other state that follows suit.
This article is interesting simply because all sides of the issue continue to drage out the same-old-tired disagreements between industry, environmentalists and the regulators. For example, due to the new regs the state says that car prices would rise by an average of $1000 and the industry says $3000.
