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Beth Daley and Stephanie Ebbert, The Boston Globe, write: "Eighteen states, led by Massachusetts, filed an unusual legal petition in federal court yesterday to pressure the US Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks - a move that could lead the automobile industry to produce cleaner-burning cars."
Inaction on Polar Bear Criticized
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Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, reports: "Senate Democrats yesterday deplored the Bush administration's failure to meet a legal deadline for determining whether global warming is pushing polar bears toward extinction and lashed their scheduled star witness - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne - for declining to appear in his own defense."
Robert Kennedy Jr. Visits Chile to Protect Patagonia
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Daniela Estrada reports for the Inter Press Service that "Robert Kennedy, senior attorney for the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), is in Chile to support opponents of a plan for building five dams in the southern region of Patagonia."
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