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Feb 6, 2009 9:35 am US/Pacific

EPA Begins Review Of CA Emissions Waiver Denial

 Environment & The Green Beat

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― The Environmental Protection Agency is beginning its review of the controversial 2007 decision denying California the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

New EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson made the announcement Friday. It follows an order from President Barack Obama last week to revisit the waiver denial issued by the Bush administration.

Obama has supported letting California and other states set stricter standards for vehicle emissions than the federal government's—something the auto industry and the Bush administration opposed.

Jackson's statement said Obama's EPA believes the waiver denial was "a substantial departure from EPA's long-standing interpretation of the Clean Air Act's waiver provisions."

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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