Tanya
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11/16/2007 03:58 PM
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Subject Fw: Ltr from Gov. of CA to President Bush re California
Waiver
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Hello David/Bob:
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I am out of the office on Monday, November 19. Can you e-mail Tincy Ricks the response letter on this
correspondence.
[The control has not come through the CMS system at this time. But continue to process without it for the
time being.]
Tincy, I will touch base with you on Monday.
Thanks.
Tanya Meekins
Office of Transportation
and Air Quality
202-564-6002 (office)
202-564-1686(fax)
Forwarded by Tanya Meekins/DC/USEPA/US on 11/16/2007 03:50 PM
Tanya
Meekins/DC/USEPA/US
11/16/2007 11:59 AM
To Robert Doyle/DC/USEPA/US
Davjd Dickinson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Karen
Orehowsky/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Karl
Simon/DC/USEPA/US@EPA
Subject Re: Fw: Ltr from Gov. of CA to President Bush re California
WaiverQ
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Hello Bob:
I did chat with Sabrina and the response has to be down to OAR on Monday. The letter will be coming to
me through the CMS system, and I'll provide you with an update on the signature.
Thanks.
Tanya Meekins
Office of Transportation
and Air Quality
202-564-6002 (office)
202-564-1686(fax)
Robert Doyle/DC/USEPA/US
Robert Doyle/DC/USEPA/US
11/16/2007 11:51 AM
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Simon/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Karen
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Washington D.C. Office of the Governor « 134 Hall of the States
444 North Capitol Street, N.W. • Washington, D.C. 20001 • (202) 624-5270
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GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
November 8; 2007
The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
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Citizen Suit No. NCS-07-08
Dear Mr, President,
It is well past time for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have acted on California's
nearly two-year-old request for a waiver to allow California and other forward-thinking states to
implement regulations that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While it is unfortunate that
today California must bring suit to demand EPA action, I do so with the confidence that a proper
application of waiver criteria, will result in EPA granting our request. This is a critical first step
that EPA can take toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles and other
sources that are warming the planet.
Rising temperatures and melting icecaps are just two among the many reminders that further
delay in reducing greenhouse gas emissions is risky business. It does not take a Nobel
committee or yet another consensus of the world's leading scientists to recognize the need for
decisive action - it simply takes leadership.
California has provided that leadership, but it has been met with nothing but delay at EPA.
California sent its waiver request in December 2005. I reiterated the importance of this request
in my letters to you of April 6 and October 24,2006. Left with no enforceable commitment by
EPA to take action after I met with the Administrator this spring, I had no choice but to promise
in my letter of April 25,2007, to bring suit for this unreasonable delay. And with the 2009
model year fast approaching, we still have no decision.
This is unfair to California and the eleven other states seeking to exercise their rights to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to automobile manufacturers who are considering the
compliance steps they need to take.
As I have shared with you and EPA Administrator Johnson previously, reducing greenhouse gas
emissions can be done with a combination of market-based and regulatory solutions that
stimulate cutting-edge technologies to both secure our collective future and strengthen our
economy. California will achieve rnese dual goals of environmental protection and economic
strength through its implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
STATE C A P I T O L • SACRAMENTO. C A L I F O R N I A 95814 • (916) 445-2841
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WASHINGTON OFFICE
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The President
November 8, 2007
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The granting of the waiver is critical to California achieving these goals in an equitable manner.
EPA has an opportunity to recognize the urgency of attacking global climate change and grant
our request now.
cc: Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Michael Horowitz, Office of General Counsel
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Linda S. Adams, Secretary
California Environmental Protection Agency
Mary D. Nichols, Chairman
California Air Resources Board
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