[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Californiawill sue the Bush Administration next Wednesday over restrictions onthe state regulation of auto emissions that cause global warming,reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The EPA has delayed on grantingthe state permission to enact stricter standards than are currentlyenforced at the federal level. Attorney General Jerry Brown will befiling the suit in a federal court in Washington, D.C. This qualifiesas being undeniably kickass.

The Sac Bee reports that while over 300 teachers in California hadtheir teaching licenses suspended or revoked between 2001-2005 due tosex-related offenses, many of these offenses are allowed to remain confidential in education records.This can cause problems when the offenders move to a different state,where employers may only be able to access limited details from therecords of the teachers they want to hire.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

A federal judge has ruled that the state of Vermont has a right to enact legislation requiring stricter auto emissions standardsthan the national standards, thus giving a boost to California’sefforts to do the same as it implements its anti-global warming bill,reports the LA Times. This is the latest carbon emissions ruling infavor of reducing emissions (the last one was when the Supreme Courtruled that the EPA could indeed regulate carbon emissions), so here’shoping that California wins its own case in federal court.

The Contra Costa Times articulates the obvious: it hasn’t been the most productive year for the California legislature.Some hopes rest on the special session Governor Schwarzenegger hascalled to address health care reform, and water storage and floodprotection legislation, but the Times says don’t count on it.

The Sac Bee also reports on the perception of the ineffectiveness of the legislative session that ended yesterday. Legislative bingo sounds like fun though.