As we've blogged about recently, state Attorneys General rock because they are powerful advocates for average folks. Check out CJ&D's recent comprehensive report here.
Staying on this theme, a recent AP story shows yet another example of state Attorneys General rocking, this time it is 18 of them who banded together to get the Environmental Protection Agency to kick it into gear and start regulating greenhouse gases, like the U.S. Supreme Court told them to. From the article:
"The EPA's failure to act in the face of these incontestable dangers is a shameful dereliction of duty," Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
It is a good thing someone is keeping an eye on the EPA. Unfortunately, government regulators are not always on top of things (See here). Thankfully we have state Attorneys General and the civil justice system as important lines of defense. As CJ&D aptly points out, the civil justice system is crucial to protecting our environmental health.
Our blog's motto states, "...so civil justice isn't toast." Truer words have never been spoken and in the case of the environment and global warming its the civil justice system and state Attorneys General making sure that we don't become toast.
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