It has been a year since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of states represented by their AG's to sue the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency to get environmental protection.   The flatearthers who currently run the EPA are busy typing up resumes to return to private practice and corporate consulting, so 18 AG's filed yet another petition saying the obvious - that the EPA has done nothing - and once again asked the DC Circuit to order administrative action to regulare gas emissons including carbon dioxide from cars.

The AG's in this action are again led by Ma. AG Martha Coaxley who is joined by the AG's of Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia, plus representatives of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the cities of New York and Baltimore, and several environmental organizations.

Join me in contemplating the simpicity of it all.

The Bush Admindistration ignores its staff and internal scientic conclusions and at the request of coprorate interests refuses to carry out the law.   Soverign states sue their own government and our highest court orders the EPA to carry out the law.   The EPA refuses.

If I were still teaching high school civics, could someone please draw me a lesson plan that is consistent with our laws and constitution?