CA AG Brown - Feds Push Back on GHG regulations

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has been having a very bad week.  A citizen's group wants to shrink his annual compensation, given the state's revenue shortfall of $16 billion.  The legislature is asking his opinion/stand on the lead content in artificial turf, which covers an increasing amount of play area and public space.  Will he have to issue a warning about the lead content - or maybe tear up all the synthetic turf?  Now, the feds are pushing back on his pet project: Greenhouse gas regulations.

As Chris Rizo reports in LEGAL NEWSLINE, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a fuel plan to increase fuel efficiency to 31.6 miles a gallon by 2015.  Brown's plan was to increase that to 36 miles per gallon by 2016. 

This new government plan had been issued after Brown challenged an earlier on in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.  Brown won.  The Feds came up with this new version which, says Rizo, Brown calls "a covert assault" on CA's GHG regulation.