Court Rejects Fuel Standards on Trucks

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"Climate change has ushered in a whole new era of judicial review."
PATRICK PARENTEAU, an environmental law professor, on an appeals court decision that struck down Bush administration’s fuel economy standards as too lax.

Court Rejects Fuel Standards on Trucks
By FELICITY BARRINGER and MICHELINE MAYNARD
A federal appeals court said that new fuel-economy standards for light trucks, including S.U.V.’s, didn’t thoroughly assess the impact of greenhouse gases.