Supreme Court justices hear debate on California anti-smog rules

Mercury News ^ | 1/14/04 | Erica Werner - AP

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a Southern California clean air agency told the Supreme Court on Wednesday it was within its bounds when it created rules stricter than national standards to reduce the number of vehicles polluting the region's air.

Justices seemed skeptical of the idea that the South Coast Air Quality Management District can go beyond the federal Clean Air Act to impose tougher antismog restrictions for city buses, airport shuttles and other vehicles. An attorney for oil companies and diesel engine manufacturers argued that local pollution rules conflict with the federal Clean Air Act.

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[The Old Hoosier]

This lawsuit is ridiculous. If a city wants to buy only buses that run on cotton candy, they should do it--and then lose the next election.

[q_an_a]

"They aim to reduce pollution in the region, which has the worst smog in the country." STOP THE PRESSES!!

Someone tell me how this can be true, Gore said Houston was the dirty city and that Bush was responsilbe. Could that have been a lie?

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[B4Ranch]

Yes, it was a lie. Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties are in a major depression due to the wages paid to the illegal alien workers.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!