The Burlington Free Press reports that "the Bush administration has urged a federal appeals court to set aside a ruling by a federal judge that said states have the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles." Indeed, "the Justice Department, in a friend-of-the-court brief filed late Wednesday, said the ruling in Vermont should be dismissed because the case was dependent upon California's receiving a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions." In response, Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell said that "there's a long way the Bush administration has to go before they're going to uphold the validity of the denial of the waiver. We look forward to that fight." Notably, if enacted, the ruling would require "a 30 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks by 2016."

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