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  • Lawsuit Insanity

    Forget that California actually allowed dealers to sell these cars and drivers to register these vehicles

    Calif. sues 6 carmakers in global warming suit

    Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:59pm ET254


    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California filed a global warming lawsuit on Wednesday against Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and three other automakers, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars.

    State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California was the first of its kind to seek to hold manufacturers liable for the damages caused by their vehicles' emissions.

    The lawsuit also names Chrysler Motors Corp., the U.S. arm of Germany's DaimlerChrysler, and the North American units of Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd..

    It also charges that vehicle emissions have contributed significantly to global warming and harmed the resources, infrastructure and environmental health of the most populous state in the United States.

    Lockyer, a Democrat, said the complaint states that under federal and state common law the automakers have created a public nuisance by producing "millions of vehicles that collectively emit massive quantities of carbon dioxide."

    Carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases have been linked to global warming.

    The lawsuit comes after California passed legislation supported by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that requires the state to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 25 percent by 2020. California was the first state to mandate reduction of greenhouse gases.

    California has also issued rules to force automakers to cut tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks. Enforcement of those rules is being delayed by litigation from automakers.
    ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
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    All CA laws and lawmakers are crazy - that is all there is to it!
    Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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    • #3
      Actually, this isn't a lawsuit to get money (the claim is way too weak). Its a lawsuit to get attention. You can see the litigation as a combination of protest over the U.S. current lack of effective climate change policy/failure to sign Kyoto and political grandstanding. The claim, which is a common law claim, has never, ever been used to protest climate change. So, this is an attention-grabber meant to get lots of media coverage and keep global warming in the public eye. Many states have been working on climate change measures legislatively, which tend to be more bark than bite - - but the underlying sentiment seems to be that enough complaint, state reform, and litigation may bring pressure to bear on the federal government and/or industry . . .

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