The big car companies being sued by the Attorney General of Califonia for causing global warming, which harms state citizens and damages the infrastructure. Apparently no other states have followed with litigation because the damage is restricted to California. Now that nut case Jerry Brown is the new Attorney General, perhaps the state will reconsider.
GM, Ford, Toyota and others don’t want to wait. They are going into the federal court system to dismiss the suit on the grounds that, if California wants lower car emissions, it should rely on the national government to create and enforce better fuel-efficiency standards.
The suit may appear wacky on the fact of it, but, if the Attorney General in California prevails and federal cours allow the legal action against the car companies to continue, similar charges could be brought in other states.
Sort of reminds one of the tobacco and Vioxx suits. Big legal bills, and, maybe, big liabilities.
Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.
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