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To: Sr K who wrote (98001)	12/20/2007 8:37:58 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 306849

hrees a very accurate take on that issue- Bush Faces a Long Legal Battle With California Here is some evidence that even the Bush administration does not believe it is on solid legal ground. During the debate on the energy bill, the White House threatened a veto. It repeated the threat in the bill's final days on Capitol Hill, based on its desire to insert into the bill a declaration that the Department of Transportation was the sole regulator for both fuel economy and tailpipe emissions from cars. Congress never agreed to this language, and with 87 percent of the public supporting more-efficient cars, the White House never followed through on its veto on this extremely technical point. But it is a technicality that would have snatched away California's authority, which has its root in the law giving the EPA power over tailpipe emissions. The automakers also made a last-ditch effort to get what is called "legislative history" on their side to use in coming court battles. After Michigan Sen. Carl Levin failed in getting the language on the EPA's authority placed into the bill, he initiated a "colloquy" on the Senate floor with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein to try to establish the Department of Transportation's supremacy on tailpipe emissions. Feinstein apparently viewed her on-floor discussion with the auto-state Democrat as such a stumble that she later came back to the Senate floor to make another statement about the energy bill: "There was no intent in any way, shape, or form to negatively affect, or otherwise restrain, California or any other state's existing or future tailpipe emissions laws, or any future EPA authority on tailpipe emissions." You can read the Blog for Clean Air entries of December 12 and 13 for all the details. usnews.com