Guv to talk global warming in D.C.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is headed to D.C. again, this time to discuss global warming.
Schwarzenegger's will be the keynote speaker tomorrow at the Newsweek Global Environment Leadership Conference at Georgtown University. He also plans to meet with EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to discuss California's petition to control greenhouse gases.
California applied in 2005 for an exemption from the federal Clean Air Act. The waiver has not been acted upon, but the state needs it in order to fully implement a state law that calls for reducing emissions from cars and light
trucks by 25 percent and from sport utility vehicles by 18 percent, starting in 2009.
An aide to Schwarzenegger said the governor's one-day D.C. trip also will include a meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstien. Schwarzenegger plans to lend support to legislation Feinstein introduced this year that would increase
the availability and convenience of low-carbon fuels.
No worries. The governator is definitely getting back in California in time to tape his special biofuels episode of MTV's "Pimp My Ride."