Posted on 05/23/2006 1:38:25 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
An environmental group sued the Bush administration Tuesday over new rules to boost gas mileage requirements for sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks, saying the regulations do not go far enough.
The Sierra Club, which filed the lawsuit, joined 10 states and other environmental groups in challenging the rules, which would raise gas mileage requirements by 1.8 miles per gallon for the 2008-2011 model years to a fleetwide average of 24 mpg.
~snip~ In the lawsuit, Sierra Club officials said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration failed to follow the law requiring it to set fuel economy standards at the maximum feasible level, arguing it could have demanded more from automakers.
~snip~The lawsuit was filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
~snip~ "We are confident that the regulations that we finally came up with will be upheld in court," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
In 2003, the Sierra Club elected to its Board of Directors Paul Watson, radical "animal rights" activist who declared at a 2002 convention "There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win."
In 2002, Sierra Club activists mounted campaigns against Arctic Refuge oil drilling.
The Sierra Club in 1998 filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, demanding the suspension of genetically modified crops. The suit was unsuccessful.
In June 2004, the Sierra Club published a "fact-sheet" alleging that the "Bush administration is weakening proven clean air protections and threatening the progress we have made over the last 30 years." A similar warning was voiced by Sierra Club President Larry Fahn, who in May 2004, after giving Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry his organization's official endorsement, stated, "[John Kerry's] commitment to environmental progress stands in stark contrast to the Bush administration's all-out assault on the environment and its record of putting polluting corporations before the American public's health and safety."
In 2002, the Sierra Club reported $23,619,830 in revenues, and disclosed $107,733,974 worth of assets to the IRS.
The Sierra Club recently endorsed a document called the Earth Charter, which blames capitalism for many of the world's environmental, social, and economic problems. The Charter maintains that "the dominant patterns of production and consumption are causing environmental devastation, the depletion of resources, and a massive extinction of species. The benefits of development are not shared equitably and the gap between rich and poor is widening."
The Sierra Club was a Cosponsoring Organization of the April 25, 2004 "March for Women's Lives" which advocated unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand. Moreover, the Sierra Club is a member organization of the Win Without War and Abolition 2000 anti-war coalitions.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6930
My favorite dork story occured several years ago when all the Colorado Sierra Clubbers drove their SUVs and Volvos all the way up to Steamboat for a meeting to talk about doing away with the internal combustion engine.
Making tha law to force cars into getting more mileage is what created the SUV in the first place. Why not try it again, It worked so well the first time. (Sarcasm.)
Sort of like the amnesty provisions of the immigration bill -- then and now.
"If these dorks, Sierra Club, are so brilliant, they let them come up with the way to get more mileage out of the gasoline engine."
These folks don't create anything but lawsuits. Their answer seems to be for us to advance back to the stone age.
I guess they think we could do away with specialized agencies and let judges decide everything./sarc
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