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States move to force EPA to respond to ruling on global warming
Attorneys general from Washington and 16 other states and several environmental groups are taking the Environmental Protection Agency back to court to try to force it comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked the Bush administration for inaction on global warming.
The court decided a year ago that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, and ordered the EPA to take action.
But the states said in a court filing Wednesday that the EPA has not issued a decision on regulation. Their court filing seeks to compel the EPA to act within 60 days.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said EPA is failing to deal with the dangers of global warming.
An EPA spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment.
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