Friday, June 29, 2007

Dirty Tricks? U.S. DoT Intervention with EPA was Inappropriate and Possibly Illegal

An AP newswire article, via CBS News, reports that:

As the Environmental Protection Agency deliberated on whether to allow California to implement its greenhouse gas law, another federal agency sought to mobilize state and federal lawmakers against the state's petition, documents show.

The 71 pages of Transportation Department e-mails and memos were released Friday to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who has contended that the Transportation Department's intervention with EPA was inappropriate and possibly illegal.

The Transportation Department says it did nothing wrong and was simply disseminating information.

More here.

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