Greens join fight to defend Calif. tailpipe standards

摘要

The Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and other environmental groups joined the fight in defense of California's emission standards today. They follow a coalition of states and municipalities taking the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and others to court over the rollback of a historical practice allowing California to set its own vehicle emission standards for greenhouse gases. The complaint against the Department of Transportation and NHTSA - filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia - was brought by the Environmental Defense Fund, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Conservation Law Foundation, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Public Citizen, the Environmental Law & Policy Center and Environment America.