"In a petition filed Wednesday, [officials of 18 states, led by Massachusetts, are taking the EPA back to court, saying that] the 5-4 [Supreme Court] ruling in April 2007 required [the agency] to decide whether to regulate greenhouse gas emissions... from motor vehicles, [and it] has instead done nothing... The petition asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to require EPA to act within 60 days... Last week's announcement by the EPA of the formal rule-making procedure signaled the agency wanted to put greenhouse gas regulation 'on indefinite hold,' said Jim Milkey... at [Mass. AG Martha] Coakley's office, who argued the case before the Supreme Court... California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the EPA 'has failed to lead, it has failed to follow the states' lead and we are prepared to force it out of the way in order to protect the environment.' The plaintiffs in [this] latest court action include Coakley and [AGs] from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia, plus representatives of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the cities of New York and Baltimore, and several environmental organizations."
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