Carmakers and States to Clash in Court over Carbon

The future of the American automobile will be at stake Tuesday when a showdown over greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming begins in the unlikeliest of places -- a courtroom in Vermont, where fewer cars are registered than in any other state.

Automakers will ask a federal judge to throw out Vermont's adoption of California's tough carbon dioxide emissions limits on grounds they are illegal, too expensive to engineer and certain to deny many drivers the chance to buy the SUV or pickup truck of their choice.

Vermont and its allies -- New York state and five environmental groups -- will defend the rules as a legal, reasonable, affordable and necessary step to combat global warming.

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