Getting Serious About Air Polution
Detroit, which can't win in the showroom, is doing just as badly in the courtroom. Its slow-selling products are now battered by legal challenge: weak federal mileage rules backed by the industry-friendly Bush administration aren't good enough.
The latest slap came from a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling tossed out a feeble upgrade of mileage rules for SUVs and trucks (from 22.2 miles per gallon to 24.1 mpg by 2011) that Bush officials put forward last year. The judges sided with environmental groups who argued there was no good reason to treat the vehicles differently from cars facing higher mileage numbers.
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5 Day Forcast for San Francisco
Golden Gate
N Buoy to Double Point, between strings of crab pots, through walls of jellyfish so thick the lines jerk clear of the downrigger clips. The ocean is more gray than green and it has been a very long and deadening summer for everyone, private, party, commercial, the whole of us.
Now:
Partly Cloudy
Wind: WEST at 14 mph
Humidity: 69%
Visibility: 10 miles
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. North winds 5 to 20 mph.
Forecast as of 2:42 PM PST on November 20, 2007
Monterey Bay, Gulf of the Farallones, and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries... High pressure over the Pacific northwest will keep a moderatenortherly wind flow over the coastal waters through tonight. Winds will turn offshore by early Wednesday as high pressure moves into the Great Basin with a thermal trough along the California coast through Friday.
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