Breaking News: EDF Joins EPA Suit

*** BREAKING NEWS *** BREAKING NEWS *** BREAKING NEWS *** Dear Daniel, Today, we joined a lawsuit requiring  the EPA to regulate global warming pollution. In complete defiance of last year's Supreme Court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency has refused to issue a formal determination that global warming pollution endangers public health or welfare. Today, Environmental Defense Fund joined with a dozen states and ten other non-profit organizations to file suit to require the EPA to comply with the Supreme Court's decision and issue its determination within 60 days. The EPA is defying the Supreme Court and endangering our economy, our environment, and our health. The law and the science are clear: The EPA must regulate global warming causing pollution. Instead, as today's Washington Post editorial reports, EPA administrator Stephen Johnson has spent the last year "making decisions that increased U.S. contributions to global warming." This includes denying California's waiver request to cut global warming pollution from automobiles -- an unprecedented step that derailed similar efforts in 11 other states. For more background on the case, read our Climate 411 blog post. Global warming is the most urgent environmental threat facing the planet today. We have a chance to solve this crisis, but we need national action now to unleash the clean energy technologies that will reinvent energy and stop global warming. We will keep you posted on this case and our larger campaign to pass a national cap on America's global warming pollution this year. Thanks for all that you do. Environmental Defense Fund Action Team