"Yes, the White House was involved," Davis said in a statement. "Just as President Clinton's White House was involved in 107 agency rule-makings. ... The majority's problem is not with the process; it's with the outcome."

The committee also found, as has been previously reported, that career EPA staff was unanimously in favor of granting the California waiver and believed that a denial would not stand up in court. The report detailed previously unreported attempts by political appointees to soft-pedal EPA staff conclusions supporting the waiver in presentations to Johnson, or to avoid committing them to paper.

California's law would have forced automakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in new cars and light trucks by 2016, beginning with the 2009 model year.

Johnson justified denying the waiver by arguing that California is not alone in suffering the effects of global warming and therefore doesn't have a compelling need for its own greenhouse gas standards.

Johnson must be a very small minded person to take the stance that California "is not alone etc". Probably very selfish too. Selfishness is a form of greed. Greed rulz!

The EPA has been sued by California, other states and environmental groups over the decision, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has introduced legislation to overturn it. Boxer plans to bring her bill to a vote Wednesday in the Environment and Public Works Committee she chairs.

Selfishness is a form of greed. Greed rulz!

I don't understand what you're talking about.

I wouldn't mind if states could set their own MPG standards as long as all the costs associated with those higher standards are passed on to those states auto prices and not to other states.

states could set their own MPG standards

That would definitely be met with overwhelming approval
of most drivers. That would be more equitable than the blanket regulations that exist now. Tell Sen. Inhofe