California leaders are confident the courts will overturn Wednesday's federal decision that blocks the state from imposing stricter auto emission standards. The California Air Resources Board already has begun looking at other options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting the ambitious goals set forth in last year's landmark global warming legislation, agency spokesman Stanley Young said. CC Times 12/21/07
A coalition of Garden Highway residents on Wednesday filed suit against Sacramento flood control officials, saying plans to bolster levees in the fast-growing Natomas area fail to consider consequences to existing flood-control systems and the environment. The suit, filed Wednesday in Sacramento County Superior Court, seeks a restraining order against the $400 million levee project as wells as withdrawal of the project's environmental studies. Sacramento BEe 12/21/07
Nearly two-thirds of California voters favor a sweeping plan to overhaul health care that is now pending before the Legislature despite the state's looming $14 billion budget deficit, according to a new survey from the Field Poll. The plan is expected to go before the state Senate in the coming weeks. SF Chronicle 12/21/07
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